Op maandag 5 oktober 2020 17:12:18 CEST schreef Geert Janssens: > As mentioned on the aqbanking beta thread on gnucash-user there was an issue > on our Windows nightly build server. > > I'll add some more details here on gnucash-devel for posterity. > > I made a package dependency change in the past weekend - I have added mingw- > swig and dropped msys-swig from the package list. > > Unfortunately the main msys2 repository (repo.msys2.org) went offline at > about the same time. This was already reported: > https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/2171 > > Apparently they have server issues. The issue above has a link to their > gitter logs suggesting the server did hang and didn't come online again > after a reboot. > > Due to this, our build scripts were unable to install the new swig package. > As my changes assumed the new package to be installed our builds started > failing. > > msys2's pacman uses a mirror list, so the connection failures to > repo.msys2.org would eventually lead to the second mirror in the list - > sourceforge. > > The issue above also recommends avoiding sourceforge as that package db is > running behind. Unfortunately our nightly builds have been trying to access > sf since the msys2 repo disappearance and it seems that resulted in some > minor package db corruption on our build server. A normal pacman update > would fail, complaining a libhtmlhelp.a was already present on the file > system (a file normally installed by crt-git). > Forgot to mention here, I have temporarily disabled the first 3 mirrors in the pacman config: repo.msys2.org, sf and one I didn't know. The fourth (yandex) was recommended on the above ticket.
> I have cleaned the package db, manually removed that file and reran pacman > update. This time updates went fine. > > Then I started setup-mingw64.ps1 again and that now properly installed the > new swig package. > > As I write this a new nightly build is running and passing the previous > choke point. > > Fingers crossed. > > Geert > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
