Need an automated way to build HaikuPorts packages

[pulkomandy]

We currently don't have any way to check the haikuports repo for consistency.

Here are some known problems:

• Some packages can't be built with the current version of gcc4 (ffmpeg, flac)
• Some packages require libpcre 8.21, other require 8.33. It's not possible to install both.

For the alpha, we need a clean set of packages that can be rebuilt in one go to populate the repository. We need to create an emty repo, and import recipes from haikuports, first adding packages needed for a bootstrap build, then growing the repo with careful checking that everything is allright.

Tools to automate the testing process when a new recipe is uploaded (a buildbot) would be nice to have.

Failing this, alpha5 would be released with a repo from which not all packages can be installed, and even worse, not all packages can be rebuilt to an identical state. This would make bugfixing and maintenance quite difficult.

[scottmc]

Are there still conflicts with libpcre? The big one I knew about was Paladin, but I believe that one now works with the 8.33 as of a few weeks ago.

[pulkomandy]

These particular known issues are probably solved, but the ticket is more about a more reliable way to avoid these problems (automated rebuild of the repo from haikuports sources). Work is in progress at ​http://haikungfu.net.

[pulkomandy]

This is now in place at vmpkg.haiku-os.org. The system is not working perfectly, but it is good enough for the beta1 release. We can improve on it in the future.