Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Europa builds are failing and until they

["Nick Boldt" <codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bjorn:

What would happen if you just turned off the siteOptimizer? How bad
would performance degrade on the site?

Nick

On 9/26/07, Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Europa Project Leads and Release Engineers,
>  As you can see http://dash.eclipse.org/~bfreeman/europa/
> the Europa builds are failing. Unfortunately, the Europa-matic has proved to
> be fairly fragile and the Fall Maintenance Release is breaking it.
>
>  Problem #1 is a bug that has been in the
> org.eclipse.update.core.siteOptimizer for some time. I
> originally reported it back in May as bug 187396. This bug causes the
> siteOptimizer to take seemingly valid jars and truncate them to zero-length
> files. When this bug was not fixed for the Europa release in June, I worked
> around the bug by replacing the two zero-length files with their originals
> (see the log where it says "Replacing known corrupted files").
> Unfortunately, for the fall release, this bug is resulting in hundreds of
> truncated files.
>
>  Now another factoid: I've been using the Eclipse Platform SDK 3.3M7 to run
> the Europa-matic. Specifically, the Europa-matic runs the Platform 3.3M7 in
> headless mode to run the
> org.eclipse.update.core.standaloneUpdate and the
> org.eclipse.update.core.siteOptimizer. Perhaps, I thought
> to myself, the Eclipse Platform SDK 3.3 official release (the Europa one)
> has fewer bugs? So I upgraded the Europa-matic to use the official 3.3
> release.
>
>  Problem #2 is that there is a new bug in
> org.eclipse.update.core.standaloneUpdate in the official
> 3.3 release that does not appear to exist in the 3.3M7 (or, more likely, it
> exists in both but is not triggered when I run M7). This bug causes the
> standalongUpdate to fail on the Platform project due to missing s390
> plug-ins. And this occurs even though I am running (as per Kim)
> standalongUpdate with the "-ignoreMissingPlugins true" option. (One would
> assume that ignoreMissingPlugins would ignore missing plug-ins, such as the
> missing s390 plug-ins; but it does not appear to do so, at least not in the
> official 3.3 release.) (Further information on this bug: Kim and I
> discovered that it 3.3M7 properly ignored missing plug-ins if the -from was
> an http update site, but not if it was a file system update site. Now it
> appears not to ignore them regardless of the source of the update site.)
>
>  So now I have reverted to the 3.3M7 code and am re-running the build. This
> is fail. It will fail because of bug 187396. Then I will have to update the
> Europa-matic to use the "manual copy" work around for every one of those
> hundreds of corrupted files. (This is a lot of work because the files have
> to copied from their original project plug-in directory, but of course the
> project information is lost at this point, so I have to find all the
> projects and all the plug-ins, build the manual bypass file, etc. My point
> is only that this is going to take some time.)
>
>  The net net of this we're _not_ going to have a green build today. And this
> means that we're not going to have a push of content to the server on noon
> tomorrow. And we're not going to have an EPP package build on Thursday
> afternoon. And we're not going to have a  Fall Maintenance Release on
> Friday.
>
>  However, please don't let the fact that we can't finish the Europa Fall
> Maintenance Release (due to bug 187396 and the as-yet-unfiled-other-bug) by
> Friday stop you and your projects from freezing your builds and uploading
> your builds to the servers and being all ready for the official release. All
> that would be good to have happen while I am working through those bugs.
> Thanks.
>
>  I have updated the wiki page with a correction to the dates (i.e., that
> we're not doing a release on Friday).
>
>  - Bjorn
>
> --
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