redports and build status

[Fernando Apesteguía]

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.
>>
>> 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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