EPEL build failures? Plague problem?

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Sep 12 14:07:26 UTC 2007


Matthias Saou wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote :
>
>   
>> Matthias Saou wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just rebuilt gkrellm-freq for EL-5, but the build "failed" for ppc.
>>> The build.log indicates that everything went fine, "exit 0" at the very
>>> end confirms this...
>>>
>>> Something is going wrong with plague?
>>>
>>> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-5-epel/36278-gkrellm-freq-1.0-7.el5/
>>>   
>>>       
>> Plague isn't moving the status beyond prepping (even though in reality 
>> the build does move on from there and completes).  There is a check in 
>> plague to make sure that mock never exits during the prep status, if it 
>> does, regardless of how mock's exit code, then its a failed build.  I've 
>> been adding some code here and there though I've not had much success.  
>> I'm still working on it but since it's hard to duplicate and my 
>> familiarity with plague isn't great it's taken longer then I'd hoped, 
>> please bare with me and continue to report these successful-failed builds.
>>     
>
> You've mostly lost me here, but I guess the answer is "yes, something
> is going wrong with plague, and I'm trying to find out what" :-)
>
> What should I do? Try to trigger the build again? Or is it 100%
> reproducible for a given tag of a given package?
>   

Oh, sorry :) Yeah just keep rebuilding until it succeeds. For each build 
that fails please add it to:

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/125

-Mike

-Mike




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