On 8 May 2015 at 10:03, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote:
Hi All,
So this build was ‘flapping’, i.e. passing/failing nearly every other
build.
http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-nightly?numbuilds=50
This was mainly due to the use of the method=‘copy’ way of updating the
source tree.
The SVN step performs two things when in ‘copy’ mode, it does a checkout
to a ‘source’
directory and then does a copy from there to the ‘build’ directory. The
first has a default
timeout of 1200 whilst the latter has a (currently) unconfigurable timeout
of 120.
It is the latter 120 timeout during copy that makes the build fail, about
50% of the time it
hits the timeout limit before the copy is complete and so the build fails.
I have changed from using mode=‘full', method=‘copy’” to using
mode=‘incremental’”
which basically means use ‘svn update’ directly on the build directory. I
believe this will
stabilise this particular build. (I can’t remember why mode=copy was used
originally.)
years ago, there was a problem with svn up, that some files were not
correctly updated (something to do
with the filesystem, if I remember right).
In my opinion svn up should do just fine now (I use it on ubuntu and
windows without problems).
rgds
jan I.
All the other builds also still use mode=copy but I haven’t spotted a
failing pattern with
those so far because of it.
HTH
Gav…
