Re: [linuxtools-dev] Recent build failures on Gerrit: Hudson doesn't hav

[Alexandre Montplaisir <alexmonthy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-02-11 01:17 PM, Roland Grunberg wrote:
>> However the lttng.org website is up, and the file still exists. We
>> had
>> this procedure going for a couple weeks already and it was working
>> fine.
>> Could it be possible that with the recent server move, the build
>> server
>> does not have access to the internet anymore?
> It would still need internet access to download the various maven
> artifacts. As far as I can see it's resolving most of those locations
> without issue. Although I can also confirm a local build works and
> the traces get downloaded successfully.
>
> Maybe the new servers are using some strange DNS that isn't resolving
> those particular locations ?

Yeah, it is indeed strange that the Maven downloads work fine, but not
the Ant task.

I filed https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400473

>
>> We will at least change it so that if it cannot download the files,
>> at
>> least it doesn't the whole build. But I am curious if this is a new
>> policy, or just a temporary problem.
> I would also propose only downloading the files if they don't already
> exist on the system. Note that we don't clear the workspace on every
> build so this should work. See :
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400459

Very good point, I thought the workspace was cleared (or a new VM spun,
etc.) every build. We'll be adding this. Thanks!