GSoC weekly report: Building archive against Clang - week 6 & 7
Lately, I have been working towards triggering Debian Unstable builds
with Debian OBS packages. As reported before, We can already build
packages for both Debian 8 and 9, but while trying to build packages
agains Debian unstable I have been reaching the following issue:
OBS scheduler reads the project configuration and starts downloading
dependencies. The deendencies get downloaded but the build is never
dispatched (the package stays on a "blocked" state). The downloaded
dependencies get cleaned up and the scheduler starts the downloads
again. OBS enters in an infinite loop there.
We traced the issue all the way down to the OBS API call which is
triggered when OBS needs to download missing dependenies. For some
reason, the number of parameters (number of dependencies to be
downloaded) affects the final response of the API call. When trying to
download too many packages, The CPIO archive is not built correctly and
OBS builds fail.
At the moment, we are still investigating why such calls fail with too
many params and why it only fails for Debian Testing and Unstable
repositories.
Here is my blog post with more details on the issue
https://athoscr.me/blog/gsoc2018-6/
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Athos Ribeiro
http://www.ime.usp.br/~athoscr
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