** On Jul 04, Philip Blundell scribbled: [snip] > >freeze begins hoping that pike7 will make it into the next Debian release, > >but it seems that at this moment I am out of options. I would really > >appreciate any help from the arm folks :)) > > The autobuilder doesn't automatically retry failed packages, they have to be > manually requeued. I did this yesterday for pike7_7.0.345-2 and it built > successfully on pig; see Excellent! > > <http://buildd.armlinux.org/~buildd/build.php?pkg%3Dpike7%26ver%3D7.0.345-2%26arch%3Darm> > > Incidentally, you weren't "out of options": you could have just uploaded the > binaries that you built yourself, especially if you thought this was just some Oh, yes - but the machine I was building on didn't have all the build dependencies - therefore I disabled the support for missing packages and built only the core, which was the thing that failed to build on the autobuilder. I just didn't want to bother you with installing GTK, GL and GLUT stuff - they're too much hassle to install. And since it did seemed to be a transient failure, I preferred the "Right Way" - to retry the autobuild process. > transient failure. Obviously, if the autobuilder is consistently failing to > build some particular package that you can successfully compile by hand then > it needs looking into, but occasional glitches do happen and it's not worth > worrying about them too much. That's right :). Will keep that in mind, thanks :) marek -- Visit: http://caudium.net - the Caudium WebServer /* A completely unrelated fortune */ I think we're all Bozos on this bus. -- Firesign Theatre
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