[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Matt,

Is there something special going on with your autobuilder setup?
Indeed, it very often reports build results that are based on Buildroot
versions that are a few days old, as if you're not testing the latest
Buildroot.

For example, if you look at the attached screenshot, all autobuilder
instances reported results based on Buildroot 05827480 (the strace
commit I made yesterday evening), except your autobuilder results,
which were based on 704db158 (a commit made on July 10, i.e 4-5 days
ago).

This is annoying because when we solve an issue, your autobuilder
continues to report the problem for several days.

Have you tweaked your autobuild-run script? Are you caching results
before reporting them?

Could you see what you can do to address this problem?

Thanks,

Thomas Petazzoni
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:01:05 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> For example, if you look at the attached screenshot, all autobuilder
> instances reported results based on Buildroot 05827480 (the strace
> commit I made yesterday evening), except your autobuilder results,
> which were based on 704db158 (a commit made on July 10, i.e 4-5 days
> ago).

Forgot the screenshot. Here it is:

  http://free-electrons.com/~thomas/autobuilder-results.png

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Matt,

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:01:05 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Is there something special going on with your autobuilder setup?
> Indeed, it very often reports build results that are based on Buildroot
> versions that are a few days old, as if you're not testing the latest
> Buildroot.
> 
> For example, if you look at the attached screenshot, all autobuilder
> instances reported results based on Buildroot 05827480 (the strace
> commit I made yesterday evening), except your autobuilder results,
> which were based on 704db158 (a commit made on July 10, i.e 4-5 days
> ago).

Since your autobuilder is still reporting build results that date back
from commit 704db158, I've disabled your account so that build results
from your autobuilder are no longer accepted.

Let me know when the problem is fixed, so that I can re-enable your
account.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Matthew Weber]

Thomas,

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello Matt,
>
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:01:05 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>
>> Is there something special going on with your autobuilder setup?
>> Indeed, it very often reports build results that are based on Buildroot
>> versions that are a few days old, as if you're not testing the latest
>> Buildroot.
>>
>> For example, if you look at the attached screenshot, all autobuilder
>> instances reported results based on Buildroot 05827480 (the strace
>> commit I made yesterday evening), except your autobuilder results,
>> which were based on 704db158 (a commit made on July 10, i.e 4-5 days
>> ago).
>
> Since your autobuilder is still reporting build results that date back
> from commit 704db158, I've disabled your account so that build results
> from your autobuilder are no longer accepted.
>
> Let me know when the problem is fixed, so that I can re-enable your
> account.
>


Apologize for the delay, I was on vacation.

I had pointed the Buildroot git  remote at our internal mirror because
of network issues fetching (this could lead to a delay of ~12hrs or
longer if the mirrors can't fetch).  I'll take a look at the
autobuilder script and instead of pointing at the mirror, I'll improve
error handling of when the remote fails to fetch.  Once this is tested
out, I'll respond back.

Matt

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:18:54 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> I had pointed the Buildroot git  remote at our internal mirror because
> of network issues fetching (this could lead to a delay of ~12hrs or
> longer if the mirrors can't fetch).  I'll take a look at the
> autobuilder script and instead of pointing at the mirror, I'll improve
> error handling of when the remote fails to fetch.  Once this is tested
> out, I'll respond back.

Have you tried using the github.com mirror instead ?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Matthew Weber]

Thomas,

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:18:54 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:
>
>> I had pointed the Buildroot git  remote at our internal mirror because
>> of network issues fetching (this could lead to a delay of ~12hrs or
>> longer if the mirrors can't fetch).  I'll take a look at the
>> autobuilder script and instead of pointing at the mirror, I'll improve
>> error handling of when the remote fails to fetch.  Once this is tested
>> out, I'll respond back.
>
> Have you tried using the github.com mirror instead ?
>

I could definitely try it.  How often does it sync?

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:00:49 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> > Have you tried using the github.com mirror instead ?
> 
> I could definitely try it.  How often does it sync?

Every 10 minutes.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Matthew Weber]

Thomas,

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:00:49 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:
>
>> > Have you tried using the github.com mirror instead ?
>>
>> I could definitely try it.  How often does it sync?
>
> Every 10 minutes.
>

I've updated to use the github mirror and a test run looks good.  When
my builder cron starts later this evening  (11pm UTC), it will be
using this new config.

Thanks for pointing this out, it was on my list to revisit but I
needed a push :-)  This is obviously good to have fixed and I've got a
couple more idle machines that will start contributing next month once
I get them setup.

Matt

[Buildroot] Autobuilder reporting old build issues

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:20:32 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:00:49 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:
> >  
> >> > Have you tried using the github.com mirror instead ?  
> >>
> >> I could definitely try it.  How often does it sync?  
> >
> > Every 10 minutes.
> >  
> 
> I've updated to use the github mirror and a test run looks good.  When
> my builder cron starts later this evening  (11pm UTC), it will be
> using this new config.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out, it was on my list to revisit but I
> needed a push :-)  This is obviously good to have fixed and I've got a
> couple more idle machines that will start contributing next month once
> I get them setup.

Thanks! I've re-enabled your account, we'll see how it goes.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com