On 8 May 2015 at 10:03, Gavin McDonald <gmcdon...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > So this build was ‘flapping’, i.e. passing/failing nearly every other > build. > > http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-nightly?numbuilds=50 > > This was mainly due to the use of the method=‘copy’ way of updating the > source tree. > > The SVN step performs two things when in ‘copy’ mode, it does a checkout > to a ‘source’ > directory and then does a copy from there to the ‘build’ directory. The > first has a default > timeout of 1200 whilst the latter has a (currently) unconfigurable timeout > of 120. > It is the latter 120 timeout during copy that makes the build fail, about > 50% of the time it > hits the timeout limit before the copy is complete and so the build fails. > > I have changed from using "mode=‘full', method=‘copy’” to using > "mode=‘incremental’” > which basically means use ‘svn update’ directly on the build directory. I > believe this will > stabilise this particular build. (I can’t remember why mode=copy was used > originally.) > years ago, there was a problem with "svn up", that some files were not correctly updated (something to do with the filesystem, if I remember right).
In my opinion "svn up" should do just fine now (I use it on ubuntu and windows without problems). rgds jan I. > All the other builds also still use mode=copy but I haven’t spotted a > failing pattern with > those so far because of it. > > HTH > > Gav… > >
