[Halld-offline] new script to update private packages (build_scripts)

[Justin Stevens]

Hi Mark,

Thanks, I haven’t tested it but this looks quite useful.  As another feature request: it’s common for people working with private builds to be using a specific branch.  And in addition to doing a `git pull` on that branch, they may want to get updates from the master with `git merge origin/master` or merge with some other branch and then rebuild everything.  

Maybe others would also find it useful to have a flag `-merge branchName` for this script that you could choose to merge your local branch with “branchName” from the remote repository and then rebuild?

-Justin

> On Aug 29, 2018, at 7:40 PM, Mark Ito <marki at jlab.org> wrote:
> 
> Builders,
> 
> I've written a new script to update private builds of gluex software packages, bringing them up-to-date with their respective upstream repositories and rebuilding them. This was a request from the last Offline Meeting. Find the script at
> 
>   /group/halld/Software/build_scripts/my_halld_update.py
> 
> Documentation can be found here <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/build_scripts/wiki/my_halld_update.py>, and is reproduced below.
> 
>   -- Mark
> 
> ___________________
> 
> Usage message:
> 
> usage: my_halld_update.py [-h] [-x XML] [-n NTHREADS]
>                           [inputPackages [inputPackages ...]]
> 
> positional arguments:
>   inputPackages         list of packages to update
> 
> optional arguments:
>   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
>   -x XML, --xml XML     version set xml file name (default: version.xml)
>   -n NTHREADS, --nthreads NTHREADS
>                         number of threads to use in rebuild (default: 1)
> Examples
> 
> Update all private packages as identified by version.xml in the current working directory. Private packages contain a "home" attribute:
> my_halld_update.py
> Update halld_sim only:
> my_halld_update.py halld_sim
> Update all private packages as identified by /home/user/project/version_special.xml:
> my_halld_update.py -x /home/user/project/version_special.xml
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