[Gluster-devel] autobuild fails because of network

[Vijay Bellur]

On 11/19/2013 01:15 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:19:04PM +0530, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>> On 11/19/2013 07:06 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have 3 changes that have failed, apparently for network connectivity
>>> problem on the build machine:
>>> http://review.gluster.org/6281
>>> http://review.gluster.org/6283
>>> http://review.gluster.org/6287
>>
>> Seem to be failing because of rpm.t:
>>
>> Test Summary Report
>> -------------------
>> ./tests/basic/rpm.t                             (Wstat: 0 Tests: 5
>> Failed: 1)
>>    Failed test:  5
>>
>> Niels: Any idea on what might be causing the rpm.t failure?
>
> rpm.t uses "mock" to rebuild the rpms inside a new+clean chroot. It will
> download and cache the needed packages for setting up these chroots
> (both for Fedora EPEL 5 and 6). If there is a restriction on using the
> network while running "mock", we can do one of the following:
>
> a. setup a proxy on localhost
> b. setup a mirror on localhost
> c. run "mock" once for caching, and update the test to use "--offline"
>
> My personal preference goes to (a), but that may not be suitable in the
> environment?
>

This failure happened in build.gluster.org. Could any changes in 
autogen.sh trigger a failure in rpm.t on build.gluster.org? I looked at 
the patches but did not find anything that looked very obvious to me.

-Vijay