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On 12/01/10 05:02, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> As Arfrever noted, this is likely the cause of the broken automated |
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> weekly stages for this past week. By not having a python symlink / |
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> wrapper, stages generation failed on stage2 run. |
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Yes, a fellow dev already reported that issue to me. |
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I have proposed a patch in the python 2.7 status thread. |
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Before mass-applying that I wanted to have review and/or more testing by |
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myself. I'm afraid of causing worse damage than that. That's why it |
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isn't fixed yet. |
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> I'd like to take this chance to recall this is the 2nd time on the last |
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> few months where stage generation was broken by python changes. Also, |
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> we've been unable to create hardened stages for over 8 weeks because of |
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> a sandbox issue. |
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Can you give us a pointer on details? |
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> The weekly stages generation depends on the quality and stability of the |
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> "stable" tree. Therefore, the RelEng team kindly asks all maintainers to |
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> pay attention to the stable ebuilds in the system set and to please fix |
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> any failures asap as they may / can prevent stage generation. Be sure to |
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> think carefully about changes that can impact the stage generation, in |
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> particular when they involve python. |
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Agreed. |
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Sebastian |