Tinderbox bustage / was: Re: python crash - Freedesktop CVS -directory -xorg:xc/programs/Xserver/hw

[Roland Mainz]

Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
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> > Well, it seems that someone did the change (without annoucing
> > "downtime", any further notice or even waiting for feedback from Kaleb
> > or Egbert). The result is CHAOS,  build bustage on all tinderboxen and
> > people can't work ... ;-(
> 
> Well, mistakes happen, we just need to fix it again.

Yeah... ;-/

> > Some comments on that:
> > 1. When the CVS is manually being changed on the server side a downtime
> > window should be annouced to avoid that people end up in problems with
> > broken local CVS checkouts - or more worse: corrupt the CVS server side
> > repository (two emails should be send: begin of downtime window and end
> > of downtime including a small status report whether the change was
> > successfull or not and whether there were any problems)
> > 2. After such changes it should be tested whether the tree still builds
> 
> > 3. I'd like to handle the current bustage in
> > https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1770 , it seems lots of
> > dead files reappeared in the trunk CVS and need to be CVS removed again.
> > ----> If noone complains I'll to that in an hour as part of bug 1770
> > (currently it's Wed Nov  3 20:24:56 MET 2004) <----
> 
> Well, they were never properly cvs removed, the RCS backing files just
> had an invalid default branch set, which prevented CVS from checking
> them out.  I dont know why they weren't properly cvs removed, I suspect
> something went wrong during the merge. The list of files to cvs remove
> is here:
> 
>         http://freedesktop.org/~krh/files-missing-1.1.1.txt
> 
> If you want to do that, go ahead.

OK, I am removing those files as part of bug 1770 (and place the removal
patch there that the files can easily be restored on demand) ... right
now I am compiling the cleaned tree to verify that it compiles
properly...

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Bye,
Roland

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