Buildbot package

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu May 26 08:38:28 UTC 2011


On Thu, 26 May 2011 10:07:53 +0200, GS wrote:

> In 0.8.0 upstream split the slave functions into a separate
> buildbot-slave package
> 
> In short, we need a new package (and review), but I've got no time for
> starting the procedure.
> 
> Besides, it's an interesting upgrade path: what should we do on
> upgrades? leave out the -slave package, make it a dependency of the
> master so existing installations are not affected or something else?
> 
> As usual, help is very much appreciated

A typical upgrade path scenario would be to create the following packages:

  buildbot-master
  buildbot-slave
  buildbot : meta-package which requires -master and -slave



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