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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/23/11 12:24 PM, Johannes Ring wrote:
> 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).

I am not sure what a pure buildbot setup is, but I like the idea of
using Dorsal as the build system on the buildbots. That way it gets
better tested than it is now. (By unsuspecting users.)

Harish