Alexander von Gluck

Haiku can be booted in several cloud environments. (Digital Ocean, AWS, Vultr) With the cloud_init hpkg in Haikuports, the VM's can be provisioned on the fly at startup by the...

Allow version "revert" of packages

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We're seeing a missing make package in Haikuports. The cause is haikuporter buildmaster doesn't "revert to obsolete packages" when the newer version is removed. Example: 1) We're using make 4.1...

Pre-process missing build-requires

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haikuporter will prompt over and over for each missing dependency as it is requested: ``` (haikuporter qemu) build-requires "devel:libfdt" of package "qemu-3.1.0" could not be resolved (install devel:libfdt) (haikuporter qemu)...

Haikuporter heavily depends on local storage and symlinks. It would be nice if the PackageRepository / Repository could leverage local storage, or programmatic remote object-based storage. Our biggest limiter in...

RFC: inline recipe bootstrap

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We currently keep a separate bootstrap [repository.](https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports.cross) This repository has recipes that have been stripped down the bare minimum requirements to bootstrap Haiku. One problem with this design is since...

Haikuporter can choose older revs of package dependencies

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Not sure if this is a "feature" but it didn't seem right: 1. Built sdl2_ttf-2.0.14-4 into haikuports/packages 2. Fixed stuff, built sdl2_ttf-2.0.14-5 into haikuports/packages 3. Built something that depended on...

haikuporter needs to check for dependency compat higher than version

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We saw this on the luajit port: The recipe technically translated to: ``` luajit = 2.0.4 compat > 5.1 ``` That technically doesn't make any sense. The recipe still builds,...