[libvirt] daily builds of pristine upstream sources for qemu, qemu-kvm, and libvirt

Howdy, developers of qemu, qemu-kvm, and libvirt. I periodically see bug reports on these lists from users of Ubuntu packages of these projects. Since these users are often running some version of the project older than the current development branch, it's more interesting to know if the user can reproduce the bug on the latest development sources. I have constructed some automation that builds Debian/Ubuntu binaries for amd64, i386, and lpia platforms directly from your master git repositories every day at 11:00 UTC, and publishes them in a special, opt-in repository. These daily builds also drop any specific patches we may be carrying, in order to minimize the delta between the binaries built and your upstream sources. * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/virt-daily-upstream In the event that an Ubuntu user reports a problem, and there's an interest in trying to reproduce the problem against the tip of the development branch, we can point them at this resource for testing purposes. Additionally, this tool also has the ability to expose build breakages. For example (let's not debug this in this thread), at the moment, qemu's build is broken, somewhere near: .... LINK cris-softmmu/qemu-system-cris ../libqemu_common.a(esdaudio.o): In function `qesd_run_in': /build/buildd/qemu-0.10.50.20090707062004/audio/esdaudio.c:400: undefined reference to `audio_pt_lock' .... Launchpad publishes the full build logs available for each architecture at the link above. For the above example, the specific build log is: * http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28761559/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-amd64.qemu_... If anyone has suggestions as to the utility of this resource, I would appreciate constructive feedback. Cheers, -- :-Dustin