[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] Problem during upload again

[Peter Bonivart]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> By the way, you might have not noticed that your first run actually
> succeeded. You saw an error message, so you didn't check the $?
> variable or the catalog content, but I bet you €100 it was correct.
>
> Why? Because of the new retry code. I noticed that on my VM, when
> running a lot of HTTP queries for a long time, a query might
> occasionally fail with no obvious reason. Since all RESTful calls are
> idempotent, it's safe to retry, so I added some rudimentary retry
> logic a few weeks ago. In your first run, one of the queries failed
> with a HTTP 500, but it waited a few seconds, tried again, and the
> retried run has succeeded, so the process could move forward. So this
> failure was so transient that didn't even break your csw-upload-pkg
> run! Yay REST + idempotence.

I did notice the text about retry but I wasn't sure about how
successful that was so I re-ran the whole set. It looked to me like
the retry also got a code 500 but maybe it was just that it was called
with that error or something.

>> INFO:root:Retry, exception:
>> http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/releases/catalogs/unstable/i386/SunOS5.10/e5bcb76cbce9bbc7d9f8bcaad5485422/
>> - HTTP code: 500