Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)
Hello Aurelien,
On 12/15/2013 09:03 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
>> On 12/15/2013 06:32 AM, Dave Land wrote:
>>> Not sure what's up at debian-ports.org, but I've been trying to
>>> debootstrap 2 different HPPA machines for the last couple days and
>>> have been getting a variety of errors (size mismatches, files not
>>> found when they were there 20 minutes before, etc. etc.) Somebody may
>>> want to look into this before it gets out of hand. Thanks! :)
>>
>> I maybe should add some more background here, and maybe someone
>> here on the list might have an idea on how to proceed.
>>
>> Background is, that Dave and myself have binmnu-uploaded the necessary
>> packages for hppa so that debootstrap worked. Then we proceeded with the necessary
>> packages for sbuild and schroot, so that I now have a buildd installed
>> which should be able to start building packages. I haven't turned it
>> on yet though for the reasons which I explain in a few seconds...
>>
>> In the meantime we have of course uploaded a few more packages which
>> now currently break debootstrap. This is fixable manually, but I instead
>> of uploading packages manually now, I would prefer to get the buildd
>> going instead... So, Dave Land, please wait a little bit...
>>
>> Now to the reasons why I didn't turned on the buildd yet:
>> We noticed, that when we manually binmnu-upload packages, which are
>> already in the *same version* on debian-ports, then debian-ports ACCEPT
>> those packages, but if we then try to apt-get-update those later on, this leads
>> to a "size mismatch" error. I do have the feeling, that this is a
>> problem on debian-ports. I noticed for example that reprepro usually
>> doesn't accept packages of the same version which doesn't seem to be
>> the case on debian-ports.
>
> This is indeed the case, apt-fptarchive keep the checksums corresponding
> to first package. That said it hasn't really caused any problem so far.
>
>> So, I'm anxious, that if I start the buildd, it will happily build and upload packages
>> which we already uploaded to debian-ports. If this happens we will get more
>> size-mismatch errors.
>
> Well if you leave the build daemons handling the uploads, they will not
> build and upload the same package again, and the problem won't happen.
Ok, so we should enable the buildd as soon as possble.
>> A trivial example:
>> On machine buildd.debian-ports.org I run:
>> deller@leda:~$ wb info hello . hppa
>> * hello/hppa
>> | hello:
>> | Package : hello
>> | Version : 2.8-4
>> | State : Needs-Build
>> | Section : devel
>> | Priority : source
>> | Previous-State :
>> | State-Change : 2013-02-18 00:03:36.782007
>> | CalculatedPri : 52
>> | component : main
>> | Distribution : sid
>> | Notes : out-of-date
>> | State-Days : 300
>> | State-Time : 25958430
>>
>> So, the package "hello" would need a rebuild according to the wanna-build database,
>> and that would wb probably tell my buildd who then would start building/uploading it.
>> But on http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-hppa/main/h/hello/ you can
>> see, that the hello-package is already uploaded at version 2.8-4
>> So, if my buildd now uploads the newly created hello package, I'm sure
>> we will run again into the size-mismatch problem.
>
> The wanna-build database is not up to date on hppa. I have disabled it
> to save some very precious cpu cycles given there are no buildds on hppa
> yet.
Can you the please start it now again?
This would help me to see what's missing.
>> Now, Aurelien mentioned last week to me, that this size-mismatch error
>> might be because of the "apt-ftparchive cache might have been corrupted for hppa".
>> I'm not 100% sure about that.
>
> Ok I wasn't aware the same package have been uploaded multiple time, so
> the corruption comes clearly from there.
>
>> My question here on the list would be, if you (other arch-porters) do have an idea
>> on how I should proceed.
>
> I would say stop doing manual upload and start the build daemons.
Will do.
That was even the plan - just upload enough that debootstrap/sbuild/schroot is
installable which it is now.
>> Best solution would probably be, if the wanna-build database rescans what's in
>> the archive already. Is this possible?
>
> Yes, I can re-enable the hppa wanna-build database if it is actually
> useful.
Yes, please, turn it on now.
I will send you the hppa buildd gpg/ssh details (as mentioned in your other mail to me) in a few moments.
>> Or, should I just start the buildd and see what's happening? If we then get
>> the size-mismatch errors there is lot of manual work to fix it (unless resetting the
>> apt-ftparchive on debian-ports would solve this).
>
> We can rebuild the apt-ftparchive database at some point.
Thanks,
Helge
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