[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#870102: Bug#870102: automatically update schroots

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2017-07-30 16:47:52, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2017-07-30 16:42:29)
>> > For documenting. The cron script already exists. ;)
>> I mean in /etc/cron.weekly for example.
>
> But putting it there would enable it by default which I'd like to avoid.
>
>> > It even has documentation of how to use it at the top. What's missing is to
>> > somehow tell people that the script exists.
>> 
>> Okay, so where can we do this - i suggested the wiki as a starting
>> point, but I guess adding it to the README file would be good as well?
>
> README.Debian would be a good place to reference that script.

ack.

> The wiki is a nice-to-have. All documentation should be inside the package
> itself. The wiki should only be a nice extra.

hmm... there's really a ton of stuff in the wiki that's missing from the
package. how about we merge those somehow?

>> > Since it's not made to be used like a normal script (controlled via
>> > environment variables and redirections for logging) I don't think that
>> > would be a good idea.
>> It seems to have sane enough defaults that this shouldn't matter. I don't see
>> why that would be a problem anyways.
>
> I see the utility of having a script that just does the right thing. Especially
> because I guess that most people just run sbuild-update with the same options
> (-udcar) all the time anyways.

Yep, that's what I found out as well. :)

> But schroot is only the default chroot backend of sbuild. If we implement a
> method with as much visibility as putting into PATH now, then it should be
> future proof to also allow updating other sbuild backends.

... well that's what the BUGS section is for, isn't it? ;)

>> Another advantage in having it in the PATH somewhere is that it could then
>> have a manpage and be cross-referenced from stuff like sbuild-update...
>> Autocompletion also does wonder for auto-discovery...
>
> sbuild-update could (and probably should) still reference to it even when it
> stays in /usr/share/doc

true.

a.

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