[gnome-continuous] docs: Update the README file
- From: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-continuous] docs: Update the README file
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:08:59 +0000 (UTC)
commit 9cc2760bbe939cbdd8cef4752c314a602cde0f33
Author: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gnome org>
Date: Tue Feb 9 13:08:04 2016 +0000
docs: Update the README file
Bring it relatively up to date.
README-build.md | 13 ++++++-------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/README-build.md b/README-build.md
index 92d2dde..30d3dd8 100644
--- a/README-build.md
+++ b/README-build.md
@@ -55,16 +55,15 @@ The simple goal of ostbuild is that it only takes as input a
"manifest" which is basically just a list of components to build. You
can see an example of this here:
-http://git.gnome.org/gnome-ostree/gnomeos-3.6.json
+https://git.gnome.org/gnome-continuous/tree/manifest.json
A component is a pure metadata file which includes the git repository
URL and branch name, as well as ./configure flags (--enable-foo).
-There is no support for building from "tarballs" - I want the ability
-to review all of the code that goes in, and to efficiently store
-source code updates. It's also just significantly easier from an
-implementation perspective, versus having to maintain a version
-control abstraction layer.
+While the goal is to always build from Git, it's also possible to use a
+tarball as a starting point, especially for low level components, or for
+components that are not hosted in Git; ostbuild will take the tarball,
+explode it, and put its contents into a Git repository.
The result of a build of a component is an OSTree branch like
"artifacts/gnomeos-3.6-i686-devel/libxslt/master". Then, a "compose"
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ Doing local builds
------------------
This is where you want to modify one (or a few) components on top of
-what comes from the ostree.gnome.org server, and test the result
+what comes from the build.gnome.org server, and test the result
locally. I'm working on this.
Doing a full build on your system
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]