redports and build status

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

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:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> 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.

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/