On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 06:31:02PM -0700, Robert Park wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > * CI and Foundations team members will spend the next two months making > > sure that all the tools we need are in place. This includes fixing > > up derived distributions, preparing an initialisation script, making > > sure that the CI engine (train or airline, as appropriate) can handle > > building for a derived distribution, and adding support for > > ubuntu-touch image builds from derived distributions. > > What will be involved in bringing CI Train up to speed for derived > distributions? Currently CI Train is able to do releases targeted at a > "series" (trusty, utopic), or arbitrary PPAs.
It'll still be a series, just not a series of Ubuntu. All it needs is the ability to target series of a different distribution. This will involve: * replacing the "/ubuntu/" part of ppa.launchpad.net URLs * parameterising the various places that the "ubuntu" distribution is hardcoded in cupstream2distro/launchpadmanager.py * adding "distribution" options anywhere we currently have "series" options * possibly adjusting anything that uses pbuilder or similar to use a different archive mirror URL You can look at the various tools in lp:ubuntu-archive-tools for a model: pretty much all of those take -d/--distribution options as well as -s/--series (or -s/--suite). > The PPA option would have been a lot easier from a CI Train > perspective, requiring no code changes on our end. In some ways it would have been a simpler option, but the lack of isolation from the parent distribution is really a killer. PPAs weren't designed to support this kind of entirely-independent use. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
