On 24 Jul, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 22/07/2016 Don Lewis wrote: >> On 22 Jul, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >>> I've progressed much further > > Thanks Damjan for the (as usual) great progress. > >>> Buildbots >>> should immediately fail the build if ./bootstrap fails >> Yes, there is no sense in continuing if bootstrap fails > > Yes, sure. > >>> 5 hours is pure waste. Alternatively we should find a more reliable >>> ooo-extras hosting solution than SourceForge. We could also cache >>> dependencies offline between builds, but I am guessing that has licensing >>> issues? > > No, dependencies we temporarily download on a build machine are not > affected by licensing issues. > > Maybe an extra parameter --cache-dir=$DIR to bootstrap would work? This > way we could setup a dedicated cache directory on the buildbots (even if > we are doing a "clean build", there is really no point in re-downloading > a file if the checksum matches).
That's a good idea, though we should probably have another bot that periodically checks for working downloads. There's no need for each buildbot to do it though, which ends up happend now multiple times per day. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
