Re: bulk builds and failed packages

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 21 April 2015 at 12:05, Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, David Brownlee wrote:
>>
>> Rsync the old package dir to the new before building, then run a
>> cleanup pass to remove older revisions of the same package after
>> build? (assumes you can fit two copies on the target :)
>
> What would the cleanup pass look like? It seems like it would get
> complicated when more than one version of a package is meant to exist, like
> apache-2.2.29 and apache-2.4.12. Say apache-2.2.29 is bumped to nb1, and
> then fails to build -- how do I know to fallback to 2.2.29 instead of
> 2.4.12?

Given you mentioned limited numbers of packages I'd not considered
multiple apache-* packages being built.. :/, though there would
probably be some magic possible with the bulk build report,
particularly if you kept the previous one's report to provide its
directory to pkg name mapping...