Hi Ramsay, On Wed, 9 May 2018, Ramsay Jones wrote: > On 05/05/18 20:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > [snip] > > [Sorry for the late reply - still catching up after (long weekend) > UK public holiday] > > > Well, what I would want to do is let the cloud work for me. By adding an > > automated build to my Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) account, of > > course, as I have "cloud privilege" (i.e. I work in the organization > > providing the service, so I get to play with all of it for free). > > > > So I really don't want to build sparse every time a new revision needs to > > be tested (whether that be from one of my branches, an internal PR for > > pre-review of patches to be sent to the mailing list, or maybe even `pu` > > or the personalized branches on https://github.com/gitster/git). > > > > I really would need a ready-to-install sparse, preferably as light-weight > > as possible (by not requiring any dependencies outside what is available > > in VSTS' hosted Linux build agents. > > > > Maybe there is a specific apt source for sparse? > > Not that I'm aware of, sorry! :( > > [release _source_ tar-balls are available, but that's not > what you are after, right?] No, that's not what I am after, because my goal is not to build sparse every time somebody pushes a new commit. I want to use the Hosted Agents of Visual Studio Team Services (because I have cloud privilege, as part of the team working on VSTS, I can use them for free, as much as I want, within reason of course). And yes, I want to use the Hosted Linux Agents for the sparse job. So I cannot compile sparse and then install it into an agent. Those agents are recycled after every build, so that every new build starts from a clean slate. If you have anything in the way of providing some easily-consumable package, that would do the job. I guess I could build sparse.deb via checkinstall in one VSTS build, offer it as artifact, and consume that from the VSTS job that uses it on the Git branches. Could you point me to a robus, yet current revision of sparse (and ideally provide me with precise instructions how to build it so that I do not have to hunt for that information)? Ciao, Dscho
