Automate testing reverse dependencies using OPAM

[gildor478]

This feature request has been migrated from artifact #1672 on forge.ocamlcore.org. It was assigned to user102. It was closed on 2016-12-06 23:24:21.

user102 posted on 2016-09-01 08:58:26:

Rebuild all reverse dependencies:

• list all of them (opam list --depends-on=oasis)
• order the build using graph of depends
• build them with current version (state 1)
• create a fake local repository with current oasis
• rebuild them with new version (state 2)

List transition state 1 -> state 2

• error: Green1 -> Red2
• +1: Red1 -> Green2
• +0: Green1 -> Green2, Red1 -> Red2

• discard building package B if building package A on which B depends on fail
• some extra package (with update of their setup.ml)

user102 replied on 2016-11-14 09:59:39:

Using opam-build-revdeps + jenkins task to promote branch opam/unstable to opam/testing.