On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 23.03.2012 11:26, Andre Fischer wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> The linux64 build #159 ([1]) broke because of the new dictionary bundling. >> The >> reason for this break is that downloading of one extension failed >> (probably >> because one mirror was temporarily down). This is regarded as an error >> that >> leads to abortion of main/bootstrap. >> >> There are several ways to fix this: >> >> - Ignore the error and start building. The only drawback is that some >> extensions >> are not bundled in the install sets. >> > > This handling could cause that a incorrect provided (aka non-existing) URL > will never be recognized. > > >> - Run bootstrap again until all extensions are downloaded. > > > Could be an endless process, if the server provided the given URL is down or > if the URL is not existing. >
Could we do something finite, like "retry 5 times" ? > >> >> - Add a switch to configure that handles extensions that can not be >> downloaded >> as warning, not as error. > > > My favorite. > But we have to assure that we have a look at these warnings in order to fix > them, if it is not a temporary one. Otherwise, this option would be the same > as the first option. > Would it be possible to include the information that warnings occur in the > post of the buildbot run? > > Best regards, Oliver.
