[csw-maintainers] checkpkg for builds spawning on 2 or more days

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 18.11.2012 um 15:14 schrieb Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>> Am 15.11.2012 um 16:30 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
>>> 2012/11/15 <pfelecan at opencsw.org>
>>>> 
>>>> The package libkpathsea6 is generated on September 27 but the checking
>>>> take place on September 30...
>>>> 
>>>> Here is what I got:
>>>> 
>>>> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>>>> '/home/pfelecan/staging/build-30.Sep.2012/libkpathsea6-20120701,REV=2012.09.27-SunOS5.10-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz'
>>>> gmake[1]: *** [pkgcheck] Error 2
>>> 
>>> ...and the file doesn't exist, right? I blame GAR. checkpkg has to
>>> get the right file name, it's not sane to do in any other way.
>>> 
>>> If it takes days for these operations, you can try running checkpkg by
>>> hand. Look what the options are there, against which catalog release,
>>> architecture and OS release you want to check it, and see what
>>> happens.
>>> 
>>> Meanwhile, GAR needs to learn how to not re-evaluate file names.
>> 
>> For now you can do
>>  mgar platforms-repackage
>> to just redo the packaging phase.
> 
> Right. However the repackage takes more than 2 days! IMHO we'll have the
> same issue. 


Are you sure? The repackage phase is usually pretty fast.
Nonetheless you are of course right that this is a bug in GAR, unfortunately it is not
an easy fix so if we can work around this quickly you probably get a releasable package
much faster than waiting for me to get a full fix for that.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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