Re: [gccsdk] Recommended autobuilder/packages/etc distros

> Theo Markettos wrote on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:56 PM:

> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:23:22PM +0100, John Tytgat wrote:

[snip]

> I'm of the opinion that VMs are cheap, so trying to make a setup that will
> have the least hassle, with whatever OS necessary. Your plan sounds like
> a
> good idea. In the meantime, if I pick Debian wheezy and install all the
> auto{conf,make}x.xx packages, will the autobuilder handle using the right
> ones?

I've recently set up a Debian VM and it worked nicely, so I'm confident I
would be able to set up a recommended system if it came to that.

> In message <537BAB40.6080304@sky.com>
> Lee Noar <leenoar@sky.com> wrote:
>
>> If I'm reading the
>> fetch-program script correctly, it looks in testing (jessie) first and if
>> it
>> doesn't find the package there, falls back tostable (wheezy).

> Given that 'testing' is a moving target, is it better to stabilise on
> something? Has recent package updating work (Alan, Lee, Chris?) been
> using
>the default sources (ie 'testing')?

I just use whatever came out of the box. So it would be testing falling
back to stable.

I vaguely recall an explanation about why testing was being used,
rather than stable, I think it was something to do with a better
chance of keeping it up to date, can anyone recall the thread?

It used to use unstable, but that was abandoned because of
too many problems.

I not sure if it has any relevance here, but the main problem I'm
having with rebuilding the packages are because a lot of the ports
have moved on since they were last built so the patches no longer work
and there seem to be a few crashes when running some of them
that I will need to track down (not sure if they are GCC4.7 or the
updates yet). I've only managed to update less than 50% of them in
the last few months.

Regards,
Alan


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