[tei-council] Problems with the UVic Jenkins server

[Martin Holmes]

We appear to be back on track with the UVic Jenkins server. What we've 
done is a slight hack: instead of asking for the version info for the 
local copy of the repository that we're currently building (which 
generates the error, because it's in an older format), we ask instead 
for the version info from the SourceForge repository itself, directly.

This is not an ideal solution. If you were to check out and build, on 
purpose, an old revision of the source, your build would include 
erroneous date information. Although it's less and less common to build 
the source locally (it doesn't even work on my desktop, for some 
reason), it's certainly something that might be done in the event of the 
need to fix (say) an egregious error that inadvertently made it into a 
release package. So we're still considering alternative solutions. One 
option is to detect whether the build is running as a Jenkins job (not 
hard to do), and if it is, assume it's always building the latest 
version and get the version info from SourceForge; if not, revert to the 
previous behaviour because we can then assume that the checkout was done 
using the local svn client, so that client will be able to successfully 
ask for the local version info. This would even give us the option to 
use one of our build servers to check out and build a particular 
revision outside of the Jenkins environment, if we needed to do that.

In addition to the svn issue, I discovered that the Ubuntu upgrade had 
removed the Libertine, Arphic and UMing fonts, which are needed to build 
the PDFs.

Cheers,
Martin



On 14-09-07 02:00 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Yes, this is all very useful stuff to do, so thanks to Martin. Annoying as it can be for Martin and I playing with Jenkins (and he does much more
> of it than me), it sets us up really well to catch future issues (we met and despatched another one a few days ago about Ant and zip).
>
> Jenkins is __so__ useful...
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> Sebastian Rahtz
> Director (Research) of Academic IT
> University of Oxford IT Services
> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>
> Não sou nada.
> Nunca serei nada.
> Não posso querer ser nada.
> À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
>