[Libreoffice-qa] daily bibisect

[Terrence Enger]

Thank you Bjoern.  Everything you have suggested has worked as far as
I can go with it now; actual execution will need a 64-bit system, of
course.

Just a couple of things more, if I may, please.

(1) Should instructions for using the daily bibisect be added to "how
    to bibisect" <wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect>?

    If I attempt this, would you be willing to review the work to keep
    me on the straight-and-narrow?

(2) I suspect that `git checkout latest` as on that page is
    responsible for a lot of my difficulty.  At least after I checked
    out master, I magically started getting most of the results you
    said I should get.  Does this sound plausible?

Again, thank you for your help.

Terry.


On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:40 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> 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