On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Shaun Edwards <shaun.edwards@gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> I ran into some strange behavior recently.  I tried to do a pre-release
> build recently on my abb stack.  I had done one about 2 months ago, but
> forgot to do a release (I'm losing it).  Despite not making any changes,
> the pre-release build failed.  I tried several "fixes" but nothing seemed
> to work.  I compared the abb stack to the motoman stack (already released).
>  Even though both had nearly the same dependencies, abb wouldn't build.  By
> that point I had convinced myself that something was wrong with the
> pre-release.  I went ahead and released abb, which surprisingly built with
> no problems.  The links for the releases can be found below.  Has anybody
> else encountered this problem?  What am I missing?
>
> ABB Pre-release (precise) :
> http://build.willowgarage.com//job/prerelease_groovy_abb_precise_amd64/15/
>
> ABB release (precise):
> http://build.willowgarage.com//job/prerelease_groovy_abb_precise_amd64/16/
>
>

Sometimes the build farm will fail for transitory reasons.

Maybe a bunch of packages you depend on were being rebuilt when your
pre-release ran. (Only a guess.)
-- 
 joq