Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#52327 new defect

Buildbot fails incorrectly if calculated dependency tree becomes invalid during installation

Reported by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: contrib Version: 2.3.4
Keywords: Cc: neverpanic (Clemens Lang), raimue (Rainer Müller), mojca (Mojca Miklavec), larryv (Lawrence Velázquez), carlesfernandez (Carles Fernandez)
Port:

Description

Build 5636 failed:

port gnuradio +docs+grc+jack+portaudio+qtgui+sdl+swig+uhd+wavelet+wxgui fd2146872b399e4f5b215d6a9eb31e6523aa1f444c9855cede444c86829b1078 previously failed in build https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.11_x86_64-builder/builds/5623
Dependency 'gnuradio' with variants '+docs+grc+jack+portaudio+qtgui+sdl+swig+uhd+wavelet+wxgui' has previously failed and is required.

But in build 5623, the reason why gnuradio failed was:

Error: Unable to execute port: Can't install gnuradio because conflicting ports are active: gnuradio-devel
Build of dependency 'gnuradio' with variants '+docs+grc+jack+portaudio+qtgui+sdl+swig+uhd+wavelet+wxgui' failed, aborting.

Not sure why both gnuradio and gnuradio-devel were in the dependency tree, but the fact that gnuradio failed because gnuradio-devel was active shouldn't disqualify gnuradio from being built in the future.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Summary: Buildbot considers a port failed if conflicting ports are activeBuildbot fails incorrectly if calculated dependency tree becomes invalid during installation

Build 5623 of gnss-sdr-devel should not have failed, because at the point where gnuradio was required by gr-osmosdr, gnuradio-devel was already installed and would have satisfied the dependency of gr-osmosdr. The problem is that at this point, we no longer know that gr-osmosdr would accept the already-installed gnuradio-devel, because we run dependency calculation first and then just stupidly iterate over the list.

A solution for this problem might be complicated… basically, while iterating over the dependency tree and before installing a specific dependency, we'd have to check whether the port(s) that require(s) the current dependency still need it or the requirement has been satisfied using other means (e.g., a path:, lib:, or bin: dependency) meanwhile. This problem occurs more or less because we don't compute a closed form solution of the dependency tree before actually installing.

To reset the incorrect state for now, you can just trigger a build of gnuradio directly, which will ignore the failcache but update it on success.

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 8 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Replying to cal@…:

Build 5623 of gnss-sdr-devel should not have failed, because at the point where gnuradio was required by gr-osmosdr, gnuradio-devel was already installed and would have satisfied the dependency of gr-osmosdr. The problem is that at this point, we no longer know that gr-osmosdr would accept the already-installed gnuradio-devel, because we run dependency calculation first and then just stupidly iterate over the list.

A solution for this problem might be complicated… basically, while iterating over the dependency tree and before installing a specific dependency, we'd have to check whether the port(s) that require(s) the current dependency still need it or the requirement has been satisfied using other means (e.g., a path:, lib:, or bin: dependency) meanwhile. This problem occurs more or less because we don't compute a closed form solution of the dependency tree before actually installing.

I figured it was something tricky like this.

To reset the incorrect state for now, you can just trigger a build of gnuradio directly, which will ignore the failcache but update it on success.

Oh good, I didn't know that would work. I ran builds of gnuradio on all the builders, which succeeded on the recent OS versions at least.

comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by carlesfernandez (Carles Fernandez)

Cc: carles.fernandez@… added

Cc Me!

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