Re: [Debian-NYC] Automating backporting (was Re: Workshop #2: using what we've learned)
Dear Micah,
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > I won't be able to participate in the workshop, but I have had a
> > question for quite a while; can you guys think of an elegant way to
> > automate the backporting process? By this, I mean I'd like to write a
> > single script, say lenny-backport, which:
>
> Have you seen the script that Russ Allbery has written to do this?
>
> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/scripts/backport.html
Actually, I haven't seen it. It makes more sense for me to use/adapt
it, rather than write my own. Thanks for pointing this out.
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Wow, thanks for this snippet! Noted for future use! :-)
> At the recent debconf there was some discussion about setting up a
> system to automatically backport all debian packages that had not
> received a special tag in the BTS to prohibit the automatic backport
> (either because the maintainer does not wish it to happen, or there are
> problems that keep it from happening), the idea would be that
> maintainers would get buildd-type reports to help them sort out these
> corner cases for their own packages... It was mostly a pie in the sky
> idea as I dont think anyone is actually implementing it, but it would be
> an interesting one to play with if you were so inclined!
Let me dig through the details and prod others for information. If I
am confident that I have a neat way to get this done, I will get down
to writing it.
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Thanks for the response.
Kumar
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