frequent buildd issues with postgis

[Dejan Latinovic]

Hi,

Is seems that build fail on Broadcom boards,
and pass on cavium and loongson.

I will run build locally to confirm this theory.


Regards,
Dejan

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From: Markus Wanner [markus at bluegap.ch]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 8:38 AM
To: debian-mips at lists.debian.org
Cc: Debian GIS Project
Subject: frequent buildd issues with postgis

Hi,

the postgis package quite frequently fails to build on mips and/or
mipsel buildd boxes. That was the case for the last two uploads, both
blocking migration to testing.

The issue clearly is intermittent and I suspect it's memory related.
However, fact is that there's a clear pattern of which buildd boxes
could and which couldn't build the package is the past. Since 2.1.1-4
[0], the following boxes have constantly built postgis successfully:

eberlin (mipsel, 7x)
corelli (mips, 6x)
lucatelli (mips, 4x)
eysler (mipsel, 2x)

These constantly failed:

rem (mipsel, 4x)
mayer (mipsel, 2x)
ball (mips, 2x)
swarm (mips, 1x)

I didn't find a single machine that switched between successes and
failures, since that point in time.

I'm currently unable to find any information about these machines; like
how much memory each has (db.debian.org seems down). However, maybe you
can see a pattern right away?

If so, can you establish some kind of rule to make wanna-build chose
known-good buildd machines? So that builds are more likely to succeed in
the future?

And for now: Can you please trigger a rebuild of the latest postgis
revision on mipsel, so 2.1.4 can migrate to testing (before the freeze)?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Markus Wanner


[0]: We had portability issues in the past. Judging from other
architecture's successes or failures, postgis-2.1.1-4 seems to be the
first reasonably portable variant, where I suspect most failures to be
intermittent.