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

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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.

The prototypes creation for each package takes between 30 and 240
minutes... I'll provide a list and other statistics the next week.

> 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.

Possibly.
-- 
Peter