From eafba0eb797058ef99ca66e1fa52e247c8ec6a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 19:36:48 -0400 Subject: devblog --- ...1__catching_up__and_arm_autobuilder_needed.mdwn | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/devblog/day_281__catching_up__and_arm_autobuilder_needed.mdwn diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_281__catching_up__and_arm_autobuilder_needed.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_281__catching_up__and_arm_autobuilder_needed.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..58755de91 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_281__catching_up__and_arm_autobuilder_needed.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +I've not been blogging, but have been busy this week. Backlog is down to +113 messages. + +Tuesday: I got a weird bug report where `git annex get` was deleting +a file. This turned out to be a bug in `wget ftp://...` where it would +delete a symlink that was not where it had been told to download the fie +to. I put a workaround in git-annex; wget is now run in a temp +directory. But this was a legitimate wget bug, and it's now been reported +to the wget developers and will hopefully get fixed there. + +Wednesday: Added a --batch mode for several plumbing commands +(contentlocation, examinekey, and lookupkey). This avoids startup overhead, +and so lets a lot of queries be done much faster. The implementation +should make it easy to add --batch to more plumbing commands as needed, +and could probably extend to non-plumbing commands too. + +Today: The first 5 hours involved an incompatable mess of ssh and rsync +versions on Windows. A gordian knot of brokenness and depedency hell. +I finally found a solution which involves downgrading the cygwin rsync +to an older version, and using msysgit's ssh rather than cygwin's. + +Finished up today with more post-Debian-release changes. Landed a patch to +switch from dataenc to sandi that had been waiting since 2013, and got +sandi installed on all the git-annex autobuilders. Finished up with some +prep for a release tomorrow. + +---- + +Finally, Debian has a new enough ghc that it can build template haskell +on arm! So, whenever a new version of git-annex finally gets into Debian +(I hope soon), the webapp will be available on arm for those arm laptops. +Yay! + +This also means I have the opportunity to make the standalone arm build +be done much more simply. Currently it involves qemu and a separate +companion native mode container that it has to ssh to and build stuff, +that has to have the same versions of all libraries. It's just enormously +complicated and touchy. With template haskell building support, all that +complexity can fall away. + +What I'd really like to do is get a fast-ish arm box with 2gb of ram +hosted somewhere, and use that to do the builds, in native mode. +Anyone want to help provide such a box for git-annex arm autobuilds? -- cgit v1.2.3