Re: build failed from bad repodata

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 01:13 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > What am I supposed to do about this?
> > (http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs//4/52-monotone-0.21-2.fc4/)
> >
> > Just "make build" again, or what?
> >
> >
> > /usr/sbin/mock-helper yum --installroot /var/lib/mock/fedora-4-x86_64-core-9c30d592682cbff5339085dd4c13c7511dcae967/root groupinstall build
> > http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/x86_64/repodata/filelists.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> > Trying other mirror.
> > Error: failure: repodata/filelists.xml.gz from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
>
> leave it alone - I'll resubmit it. The packages were pushed at the wrong
> time.

I consider this to be a minor design flaw.  It is not good that the 
pusher needs to watch asynchronous events and wait for the perfect time 
in order to push without causing other parts of the build system to 
fail.  The system could be improved in the future to be robust enough to 
handle this.  Maybe it could detect this particular error and restart 
the BuildRequires population from the beginning after a pause, maybe the 
existence of a lockfile?

This is low priority to fix for now because it is easy to avoid now that 
I know about the problem.

Warren Togami
wtogami redhat com