author | William Roberts <williamr@symbian.org> |
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:59:17 +0100 | |
changeset 280 | 150026b6d3e6 |
parent 178 | eab8a264a833 |
permissions | -rw-r--r-- |
# Copyright (c) 2009 Symbian Foundation Ltd # This component and the accompanying materials are made available # under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0" # which accompanies this distribution, and is available # at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". # # Initial Contributors: # Symbian Foundation Ltd - initial contribution. # # Contributors: # mattd <mattd@symbian.org> # # Description: # DBR intro - displays some introductory information def run(args): help() def help(): l1 ='\nDBR tools are simply a way of checking what has been changed in the build you are using.' l2 ='\n\nUnlike CBRs, they intentionally make no attempt at understanding components,' l3 ='and subsequently they do not have the restrictions that CBRs require.' l4 ='\n\nGenerally speaking all developers work from builds of the whole platform,' l5 ='and developers want to change the build, and know what they have changed,' l6 ='what has changed between builds, or what they have different to other developers' l7 ='with as little hastle as possible.' l8 ='\nThere is a patching mechanism for developer providing patches to eachother for the short-term,' l9 ='but the idea is that patches are short-lived, unlike CBRs where they can live forever.' l10 ='\n\nIn short, you get most of the benefits of CBRs without the hastle.' print l1,l2,l3,l4,l5,l6,l7,l8,l9,l10 s1='\nHow To use\n\n' s2='Starting Method 1:\n' s3='\t1. Unpack all your zips on to a clean drive\n' s4='\t2. Ensure you\'ve extracted the MD5s into epoc32/relinfo\n' s5='\t3. Run \'dbr checkenv\' to generate a database\n\n' s6='Starting Method 2:\n' s7='\t1. Run \'dbr getenv <build_location>\' to install a full build and configure the database\n\n' s8='If you want to know what you\'ve changed, run \'dbr checkenv\'\n' s9='If you want to clean the environment run \'dbr cleanenv\'\n' s10='If you want to compare two baselines run \'dbr diffenv <env1> <env2>\'\n' print s1,s2,s3,s4,s5,s6,s7,s8,s9, s10