[Libreoffice-qa] daily bibisect

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi,

sorry for the late reply. I didnt find time to look into this earlier.

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:17:31AM -0400, Terrence Enger wrote:
> I am for the first time trying to use a "daily" bibisect.  For the
> terminally curious, this is in aid of fdo#64686 "Bug in Contour
> Editor" <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64686>.
> To this end I downloaded and unpacked
> http://people.canonical.com/~j-lallement/libreoffice/binrepo/bibisect-4.0.tar.lzma
> (created 2013-05-08) and in the resulting binrepo/ I did 
> `git checkout latest`.  Questions and difficulties arising ...
> 
> (*) The tar file has a sibling bibisect-4.0.tar.lzma.zsync.  Am I
>     supposed to use this for something?

If you install zsync (with `apt-get install zsync`), you can do:

zsync  http://people.canonical.com/~j-lallement/libreoffice/binrepo/bibisect-4.0.tar.lzma.zsync

which should do incremental updates.

> (*) binrepo/ lacks program soffice, and in particular it lacks
>     opt/program/soffice.  How am I supposed to run the program?
>     (There does exist opt/program/soffice.bin, but not ooenv which I
>     need to `source` first.)

Hmmm, with my copy doing a:

 git checkout master && git reset --hard HEAD

gives me a build of 5a8f5914c2077fe330d713a5d3a2be3b3f6a7e9a from 2013-05-07
and the about box says so too.
Checking out the oldest version with:

 git checkout 3e7462bd65e692bf0592d5b080b7716341b62a47 && git reset --hard HEAD

gives me a build of 1eddfce9894fd05315173744f495619189093dc7 from 2013-02-05
and the about box says so too.

> (*) `git log` shows 74 commits, the latest from February 2013.  I
>     expected to see later commits.

Strange:

 git log --pretty=oneline master|wc -l
 263

looks fine here.

Best,

Bjoern