Building your project daily

[James Westby]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:04:28 -0400, Jacob Peddicord <jpeddicord at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Daniel Holbach
> <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > and tell me what you think. Also there's going to be a session at Ubuntu
> > Developer Week about the topic today, led by Jorge Castro and me.
> 
> Gave it a try[1]. I noticed that bzr-builder doesn't create an orig
> .tar.gz, which breaks some things, namely the use of "3.0 (quilt)" in
> debian/source/format. So I added a "run rm -rf debian/source," to
> which Launchpad complains that you can't use "run" there. Ended up
> just removing that file, though I'd like to keep packaging up to
> standards when actual packages are made. This means that either 1) I'm
> doing it wrong, or 2) I need to maintain a separate packaging branch
> for daily builds.

You can merge in an extra branch that removes the file.

You are not limited to one or two branches in a recipe.

Please file a bug against bzr-builder that it doesn't work in that case
anyway, we may be able to fix it.

Thanks,

James