[maemo-developers] Problems with autobuilder?

[From: Niels Breet]

On Wed, April 1, 2009 21:39, Anderson Briglia wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Anderson Lizardo <
> anderson.lizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Niels,
>>
>>
>> It seems a package with broken version just triggered a nasty bug in
>> the autobuilder, in that an exception is thrown (and the build aborts)
>> but the broken package is not removed from the queue. Therefore the
>> package is selected again and again for building and the builder enters
>> in a infinite loop.
>
>
> Yes, my bad. A wrong version of some Carman dependencies were sent to
> Diablo
> autobuilder. Since the packages had the version number changed, I did not
> make a build test here.
>

It seems that Ed has committed a fix for this problem. The error will be
handled a lot better now.

>>
>>
>> IMHO, the autobuilder code should remove the broken package from the
>> queue on any error (even unexpected ones).

I agree.

>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Anderson Lizardo
>> Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT)
>> Manaus - Brazil

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster