On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Alexandre Montplaisir <
alexmon...@voxpopuli.im> wrote:

> Hi Aleksandar,
>
> The problem seems to be on Eclipse's side. The Jubula team has responded
> to the bug saying it affects them too:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400473
>
> We have no idea how long that might take to fix, so we'll disable the
> downloading (and the tests that depend on it) in the meantime.
>
>
> On 13-02-12 05:22 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> > On a second thought - offline builds is heavy used in many places so I
> would like Linux Tools to not try fetching it's sources during build. Note
> that maven/p2 reqs are not in the same category as they can easily be
> provided by nexus installation.
>
> It's not fetching sources, it's fetching binary traces used to run unit
> tests (about ~10 MB of them). In the past, those were stored directly in
> git, and there has been (very valid) concerns about storing large binary
> files in git.
>
> Having them available during the build allows us to run the CTF-related
> unit tests. Those tests are really important to us: the bug that makes
> LTTng in LT 1.2 completely unusable would have been caught if those
> tests were running (they weren't running back them, we enabled them last
> month).
>
> But I totally agree that the build should not *depend* on downloading
> those. We're working on a way to make the download not fail the build if
> it fails, and if possibly skip the unit tests that depend on them if
> they are not found. That way it should still "work" for a completely
> offline build. Would you be fine with this solution?
>

Sure, as long as the buildsystem works in offline mode I'm fine with it.

Alexander Kurtakov


> But as mentioned, we'll just disable them for now, until the problem at
> Eclipse is fixed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alexandre Montplaisir
> Eclipse Linux Tools committer
>
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