[Soc-coordination] GSoC begins, some important information

[Gustavo Alkmim]

Hi.

My project is the "Automated Multi-Arch cross-building and bootstrapping"
one. I'm going to concentrate on circular dependencies breaking and making a
tool to sequence bootstrap builds.

In the past weeks I studied about the related documentation available at
debian wiki and other internet sites. I don't have so much things to write
about this because I was just understanding all the documentations and
definitions related to the problem.

As a conclusion of this first step I may say that I am very interested in
the project. I don't have all the stuffs clearly in my mind but I hope I
understood the main things. Also I'm glad to see that the debian/ubuntu
community is very helpful.

Currently I am doing I bash script that returns the build sequence of a
given package and its dependencies. If the sequence has a cycle, it will
return the dependency graph. I had some problems using xdeb to make the
cross-build because xdeb needs the source of the packages. To solve this
problem, I am going to try a patch.

The following step is to use the script to find the loops of a given set of
packages needed to bootstrap Debian in a given architecture and so brake the
cycles. Finally, I'm going to be able to make a tool to automate the
bootstrap process.

Gustavo Prado Alkmim
Bacharel em Ciência da Computação (UFLA)
Mestrando em Ciência da Computação (UNICAMP)

--
"Do que adianta para o homem ganhar o mundo e perder sua alma???"



2011/6/3 Ana Guerrero <ana at ekaia.org>

> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:30:31AM -0300, Gustavo Alkmim wrote:
> > Another question:
> >
> > What I need to write on the report? I don't know what is the detail level
> > you are waiting from our report.
> >
>
> We do not want the juciy details, just an overview of how things are going,
> the report can be written answered to 3 points:
> - a few lines of what you have been working in previous 2 weeks (I wrote
> the
>  spec for this, then update the code that you can see at xXX and I talked
>  with my mentor about this and that)
> - report in what you got stuck, and if you solved it and how.
> - report what you are planning to do in the future 2 weeks.
>
> Also, the reports from Ishan and Guillaume are quite OK, take a look to
> them :)
>
> Ana
>
>
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