Live builds (was: Merged proto package)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2010-04-20 at 21:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote: 
> On 18 April 2010 17:21, Joel Feiner <jafeiner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Or you could use build.sh or jhbuild or moral equivalent.  For testing, I
> > have an entire X system checked out and use jhbuild to update it.  It also
> > automatically saves your work (via git stash) so you can deal with merge
> > conflicts later.  You also don't have to worry about hunting for
> > dependencies and configuring those individually and manually.
> > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/JhBuildInstructions
> > It's non-trivial, but not terribly complex to set up.  And once it's set up,
> > you can pretty much forget about most of what's on that page.  You just run
> > jhbuild -f modular-buildrc build xserver or whatever and you're good to go.
> 
> 
> I spent a little while playing with jhbuild under various operating
> systems a while ago. Once jhbuild is installed and working it's
> fantastic, but setting it up is an a*se and a half. And *no-one* seems
> to package it.

FWIW:

daenzer at thor|8:58:36> apt-cache policy jhbuild
jhbuild:
  Installed: 2.29.2-1
  Candidate: 2.29.2-1
  Version table:
*** 2.29.2-1 0
        500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


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