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[Arjen Lentz <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kristian

On 24/04/2009, at 5:53 PM, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
> I have been discussing with Arjen about using MariaDB as the base  
> for OurDelta
> 5.1 binaries.
>
> The idea would be to build directly from the MariaDB bzr tree on  
> Launchpad,
> rather than from upstream source tarballs from MySQL/Sun as is done  
> for 5.0.
>
> For this purpose, I made a small script `tarbake51.sh` to be used  
> instead of
> tarbake.sh. This script will check out a revision from the lp:maria/ 
> 5.1 tree,
> and build a source tarball to be used in the remaining steps  
> (autobake-*).
>
> I pushed the resulting branch to Launchpad:
>
>    lp:~ourdelta-core/ourdelta/ourdelta-mariadb51
>
> I hope it will be useful, feel free to extend as desired.
>
> A source tarball can be made with commands like this:
>
>  ~/ourdelta/bakery/preheat.sh
>  bakery-54/bakery/tarbake51.sh last:1
>
> The tarbake51.sh takes a bzr revision specification. This is to  
> encourage
> keeping carefully track of which revision is used for which release.  
> Idea is
> to set a release tag before building and specify this tag as the  
> revision to
> release, or alternatively to specify a revid: revision and tag that  
> later
> after a successful release. For quick testing, last:1 uses the latest
> revision.
>
> An optional second argument can be used to specify a local bzr  
> branch to use
> (but the script tries to make sure it uses a shared bzr repository  
> so it does
> not need to pull everything down from launchpad in each run).
>
> Please let me know how I can help further improve this and push the  
> project
> on.
>
> I looked at the autobake-deb.sh, this is currently hardcoded to 5.0,  
> but I see
> a 5.1 debian/ directory, so I am not sure what needs to be done here  
> or what
> current plans are. I am no expert on building .deb, and know even  
> less of
> .rpm.

Since the 5.1 build methodology is a bit different, we'll probably  
need separate scripts.
So in that case, please create whatever51.sh equivalents.
If you reckon it can be combined, that's fine too!

Peter and I will probably take care of the Debian/Ubuntu and RPM  
stuff, respectively.


> I thought I might look at autobake-bintar.sh next, as I remember it  
> is not
> fully functional yet, I will try to see if I can make it do stuff  
> similar to
> the quick MariaDB release I put together at the start of the week.


Sounds good!


Regards,
Arjen.
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