Development/Packaging/BuildSystem/Problems
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Build System Problems
Quick and assorted list of BuildSystem problems to be solved. We'll use bugzilla as soon BS is stable and documented.
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i586 builds are very slow, while x86_64 is fast. Many i586 builds keep entering and exiting the build state for no apparent reason, only to enter again in some other node and have the same issue - Packages uploaded to non-cooker distro loose the misc changelog because it's only for cooker (have to check this in more detail -- andreas)
- no qos for interactive remote work and for remote svn access (any huge transfer in aboukir affects remote maintainers)
- svn+ssh slower than https access
- unstable cluster network (NFS NIS issues)
- old hardware and lack of storage space
- lack of documentation for contributors (the existing is outdated and too complex). The contents of twiki pages talking about the Build System have several overlaps and are not clear.
- N different tools with no clear objective (youri, youri.devel, youri.queue, repsys, mdvsys, etc) - ok, some of them are already obsoleted and this may be just a documentation issue
- confusing semantics of distro targets
- insane verbosity of submission tools and logs
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lack of build monitoring - lack of cluster health monitoring (we can not rely on just a few persons to put the cluster back to work)
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no control of scheduled build bots (seen several bots building the same package) - critics for tools code and documentation (not easy maintenance and lack of robustness)
- bugzilla is often slow or unreachable
- broken package maintainers list
- bad cluster account management (case by case with no automation)
- unused (?) reports sent by bots about broken dependencies
- i18n infra-structure outdated (cvs versus svn usage) - !as good as all modules for i18n are moved to svn now!..
- bug #27260. Be more robust regarding disk space problems. For example, if /tmp is full, this is what one would get:
[thomas@kenobi ~]$ mdvsys submit kernel-tmb error: command failed: rpm -bs --nodeps --define '_topdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3' --define '_builddir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/BUILD' --define '_rpmdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/RPMS' --define '_sourcedir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SOURCES' --define '_specdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SPECS' --define '_srcrpmdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SRPMS' --define '_patchdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SOURCES' --define 'packager Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>' /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SPECS/kernel-tmb.spec error: Unable to open temp file. *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: free(): invalid pointer: 0x085d91c0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= [0x8406180] [0x8409231] [0x8051fa2] ======= Memory map: ======== sh: line 1: 26360 Aborted LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C rpm -bs --nodeps --define '_topdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3' --define '_builddir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/BUILD' --define '_rpmdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/RPMS' --define '_sourcedir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SOURCES' --define '_specdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SPECS' --define '_srcrpmdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SRPMS' --define '_patchdir /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SOURCES' --define 'packager Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>' /tmp/tmp49qAD3/SPECS/kernel-tmb.spec Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mdvsys line 388. Can't submit kernel-tmb
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