adding SQLite support to Tinderbox

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon May 9 18:18:37 EDT 2011


On 5/9/11 4:35 PM, Mark Johnston wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been planning to use the tinderbox scripts at $WORK; one of the
> things I wanted to do first was add sqlite support - it's not strictly
> necessary, but it makes things a bit easier to set up, and I can move
> the tinderbox to another machine easily if I have to since the database is
> just a regular file.
> 
> I have a preliminary patch which adds some SQLite support; I can
> initialize the database, create jails/portstrees/builds/ports without
> any problems and build packages. At the moment, this is more or less
> sufficient for my purposes, but I'm sure there is more work that needs
> to be done to add full support - I haven't tested the web interface
> (since I won't be using it) and I haven't tested most of the tc commands.

Great!  I think this will make quite a few other users happy.

> 
> What I'd like to know is whether anybody would be interested in
> bringing my changes into the official Tinderbox scripts; if this is the
> case, I'll happily keep working on them (i.e. test the webui, etc.).
> Otherwise, I probably won't go further than what I've already done since
> I've already gotten all the basic functionality working.

Yes, if you submit the final set of patches that provide the same level
of functionality as MySQL and Pgsql, I'll merge them.  Support would
likely go back to you if there are non-trivial things that need to be
done to keep functionality moving forward.

Joe

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