Re: Changes to the autobuilder.

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 01/08/2011 03:21 PM, Flanagan, Elizabeth wrote:
> I've made a few changes to the autobuilder that people should know
> about. Currently, we've been utilizing the milestone builders to split
> the nightly to both the internal and external builders in order to
> speed things up. I've renamed them to nightly-internal* and
> nightly-external*. They were putting their build output to the
> milestone directory on the webserver. This was incorrect behavior.
> I've changed this to make the build output go out to the nightly
> directory of the webserver: http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/nightly.
>
> The big change is to how we deal with emenlow, atom-pc, beagleboard,
> etc. These are now found under the machines/<machine_name>/<arch>

once you've descended into machine_name, "arch" seems superfluous. Won't
it be the only directory? Would it make more sense as:

machines/arch/machine_name ?

machines
   x86
     qemux86
     atom-pc
   x86_64
     qemux86-64
   arm
     beagleboard
     beagleboard_xm

Something like that?

--
Darren

> directory in the build output web directory. I'll need to eventually
> refactor some of the autobuilder scripts to deal with BSPs a little
> more elegantly, but it's functional for now and we have a standard to
> adhere to.
>
> Also, be aware that we now have a functional CURRENT link, so if you
> go to the autobuilder/nightly/CURRENT directory this will point to the
> last thing the autobuilder built. Keep in mind, it will create that
> link even if the build is broken.  I'll have a commit with all of this
> in it when I finish up the upgrade to 0.8.3.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
>
> -b
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Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel