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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Harish Narayanan
<harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/22/11 9:09 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:46:04PM +0100, Kristian Ølgaard wrote:
>>> Is libhwloc-dev missing too? c.f.
>>> https://answers.launchpad.net/dorsal/+question/179225
>>
>> Yes, probably. Harish could you add both packages.
>
> I have done so.
>
>> We really need a buildbot that installs clean version of all the
>> operating systems supported by Dorsal and builds everything with
>> Dorsal nightly... but it seems like an overwhelming task. It's
>> problematic that those who write the Dorsal platform files already
>> have most of the needed packages installed since before so things like
>> this slip by unnoticed.
>
> Perhaps the "supported" list can be narrowed down to something more
> manageable. What build system do the buildbots use?
>
> (jhbuild comes to mind, but I don't remember why.)

Yes, it's currently jhbuild, but it will probably be dropped in favor
of a pure buildbot setup in the (not-so-distant) future. Maybe then we
can also get some testing of Dorsal (and the Debian/PPA/binary
packages).

Johannes