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[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:18:50 +1000, William Grant <wgrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 16:01 -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> > 
> > That plan doesn't work.
> > 
> > By policy, we only install stuff within the data centre from IS-controlled 
> > archives.
> 
> I might point out that these machines run code from arbitrary users on
> the Internet. But the point does sort of apply a bit.
> 
> > So once, the updated package is available into the Launchpad PPA, you will 
> > need to file an RT # to have it deployed to the builders. lamont is responsible 
> > for maintaining the builders, so you can ping him. He'll take the Launchpad 
> > package, review it and then make the necessary magic to have it deployed to 
> > our builders. That will replace your #3 step below.
> 
> We would need an IS-controlled PPA, then. The builders are virtualised
> and cleaned before every build, so we need this new bzr-builder *inside*
> the chroot, so it must be installed for each build.

Another alternative is to install it on the host somehow, and then
teach it how to chroot.

It's a bunch more code to write though, and I'm not sure it's an
important distinction from a code point of view. If the operation
viewpoint requires it then we can do it.

Thanks,

James