Review of armel regression FTBFSes

[Michael Hope]

Oh: incidentally there's a ton of packages that you wouldn't think
depend on Java but actually do.  I was just looking at gettext and it
fails due to something needing the 'ca-certificates-java' package,
which segfaults during certificate generation.

-- Michael

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org> wrote:
> I've knocked off a few of these.  At least half are probably upstream
> issues or ARM specific, but there's a few such as segfaults when
> running tests that smell toolchain specific.
>
> See https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/BuildFailures
>
> -- Michael
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at linaro.org> wrote:
>>        Hey
>>
>>  Matthias kicked an armel rebuild of Ubuntu main with a gcc-4.4 + Linaro
>>  diff package.  The rebuild copy-archive is visible at:
>>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20100707
>>
>>  The failed logs are at:
>>    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20100707/+builds?build_text=&build_state=failed
>>
>>  @Steve, you had offered help in reviewing the i386/amd64 rebuilds in
>>  the past (and I think Michael Hope was working on these); I would very
>>  much take help in reviewing the armel issues.  Is this something the
>>  Foundations team could help with?
>>
>>  I'd like to discuss organizing this review a bit.
>>
>>  * First, we need to make sure we don't review the same build logs
>>   multiple times; the rebuild isn't over and builds are going to
>>   continue showing up; Matthias told me new build logs will show up at
>>   the top, so we only need to note the last package we reviewed.
>>
>>  * We need some place tracking the build logs which we skipped (for
>>   which we didn't file a bug) and/or note last reviewed package; I
>>   propose to note this down in a wiki page.
>>
>>  * For now, we should skip openjdk / java related issues; openjdk needs
>>   some bug fixing before we can consider using it on armel.  Such
>>   issues should be documented along other instructions in the
>>   aforementioned wiki page.
>>
>>  * I think we should skip packages which FTBFS on x86.  Do we actually
>>   compare build logs before classifying these?
>>
>>  * We should file bugs with some standard tags, perhaps linaro + armel?
>>
>>  * I would like us to develop helpers to analyze build-logs; perhaps
>>   Lucas Nussbaum has something since he manages to analyze the grid5000
>>   rebuild logs decently.  Ideally, these tools would also allow
>>   assigning build log reviews to people, leaving comments and such.
>>
>>  Comments welcome!
>>
>>   Cheers,
>> --
>> Loïc Minier
>>
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