Re: Emacs builds failing to pull changes

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi,

I have switched away from the local clone, and it seems the builds
have started again. Let's see if it keeps working ;-)

Cheers.
Rob

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Rob Vermaas <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Rob Vermaas
>
> [email] address@hidden



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