redports and build status

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Ajtim <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 13 August 2014 17:11:28 Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:49:31 +0200 Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> >>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:38:27 +0200 Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>> >>>> I built a port in redports and I received a mail notifying that the
>>> >>>> builds were finished, but it seems redports couldn't figure out if the
>>> >>>> builds finished successfully.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> https://redports.org/buildarchive/20140812170901-30860
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Any ideas of why this happened?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'm seeing a lot of these as well. CCing decke@
>>> >>
>>> >> Yeah, the "finished" state is some rescue state in case something went
>>> >> terribly wrong. Usually this happens when something inside redports fails
>>> >> or some backend behaves very weird or if the port creates some very
>>> >> strange
>>> >> situation like a recursive dependency (which fills up a temporary
>>> >> partition and then fails).
>>> >>
>>> >> If only one of many jobs fails then chances are good that it is some
>>> >> redports weirdness. If many jobs fail (like in this case) and it is
>>> >> reproducible then the chances are good that your port is doing something
>>> >> very very bad.
>>> >
>>> > I'm seeing these on multiple unrelated ports and with trivial changes.
>>> > I've now cleared my redports tree, leaving only one unmodified port and
>>> > it still results in all 'finished'.  Maybe redport's internal ports tree
>>> > got corrupt or one of its cached packages?
>>>
>>> Mine is modified but nothing to do with dependencies or such. However
>>> this problem is reproducible. This is the port:
>>>
>>> https://redports.org/browser/fernape/lang/basic256?rev=30358
>>>
>>> I don't see very bad things there or at least not compared with the
>>> previous revision which finished with "success"
>>>
>>> Can you think of anything I can try? I'm willing to help. I got used
>>> to run successfully tests in redports to attach them to my PR's and I
>>> don't want to update this port until it builds properly.
>>>

Just tried another port and it finished without being able to figure
out the outcome of the building process. The differences between the
revision that "worked" and the one that didn't, are trivial:

https://redports.org/changeset/30460/fernape

Cheers.

>>> Regards
>>
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=44800&start=75
>
> Sorry, but I don't see how that thread is related to this one...
>
>>
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