Re: Emacs builds failing to pull changes

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi Glenn,

I think I will re-implement the Bazaar plugin for Hydra. It seems that
the bzr branch + bzr pull + bzr checkout is too fragile. After
skimming the bazaar documentation, I think we can just poll for the
latest revision remotely via 'bzr revno' and then do a 'bzr checkout
--lightweight'. Do you think this will work for the emacs build?

There is a NixOS sprint next week in Slovenia, I will implement it
there. Will let you know when it is up.

Cheers,
Rob

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello, me again...
> It remains broken. `bzr branch' is not restartable, so it isn't going to
> fix itself.
>
> My final suggestions on this matter before I give up:
>
> i) If no-one has time to look at this, then if I can get access to the
> machine, I can try and look myself and see what might be going wrong. I
> quite understand if you don't want to give out access. I also understand
> that it must be a nuisance to have one project that keeps needing
> manual intervention.
>
> ii) Final resort, switch to the git mirror of the Emacs repository,
> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git . This is far from ideal from our
> point of view, but better than nothing.
>
> Otherwise I suppose we'll try and find somewhere else to host Emacs
> builds, since obviously they are of no use if they persistently fail.
>



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Rob Vermaas

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