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May 2017

Stacked_Lambda

PulkoMandy,

Once again, an excellent, and short update on activities.

You don’t need to apologize about running of “catchy” taglines to introduce the monthly report. After-all, unless something really special has happened, the monthly report is mostly about the small suite of improvements toward the goal(s).

Hum - Is the user loosing “control” with automatic application of updates by the Software Updater application?

Reference is made to the Mac Minis donated by Mozilla. I remember the post about the donation. Hopefully, those who have received the units will contribute them to the build bots…By the way, what are the specifications of these units? This could be handy to “collect” additional ones as they are advertised on various resale sites.

1 reply
May 2017

PulkoMandy Developer

At the moment, the software updater is an application you run manually. Later on, it may also provide a notification that updates are available. But that’s it, we don’t plan to sneakily install updates without the user accepting them first.

I don’t remember the exact specs for the Mac Minis. Anyway, if you want to run a build bot, all you need is a machine (real or virtual) running Haiku, online most of the time, and accessible through ssh. It does not have to be similar to the Mac Minis (in fact, none of the package build slaves at the moment is using one of these).

May 2017

Perelandra0x309

No, the article is incorrect, the user must still manually confirm before any updates are downloaded or applied. You can schedule it to automatically check and notify if there are available updates but actually applying them requires user interaction.

Nice work, I was pleasantly surprised by all the HaikuPorts updates.

May 2017

extrowerk

Bots, yeee!!! Thanks!

Can we see somewhere the build-logs? hdf5 build on AMD64 failed and i would like to know, why.

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May 2017 ▶ extrowerk

PulkoMandy Developer

The build logs are linked from the status pages:

http://vmpkg.haiku-os.org/x86_gcc2/
http://vmpkg.haiku-os.org/x86_64/

I have deployed a new version of the page which is much faster and the logs are nicely html-formatted, too.