On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Toris, Russell Charles <rctoris@wpi.edu>wrote:

> Good Morning Releasers-
>
> I have a strange build bug that occurs only on a subset of the build
> servers. Our package, ros_web_video, was built last year on a very specific
> version of FFmpeg. When getting ready to push the build into new ROS
> distros (hydro and groovy), we decided to try and use git submodules to
> gather the code instead of keeping a copy of the code locally. What we
> found was that bloom itself does not like git submodules (
> http://answers.ros.org/question/76732/build-failure-after-moving-submodule/)
> and were unable to find any updates that indicated this was solved.
>
> Instead of releasing very specific versions of FFmpeg into their own
> debians which seemed like overkill and redundant, we decided to mimic git
> submodules in the build script. Essentially, we call a git clone and
> checkout the tag for the version we want and continue the build. This works
> perfectly on all of the groovy builds, however, some of the hydro, and most
> of the indigo builds fail with the following error:
>
>  Cloning into 'FFmpeg'...
>
> fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git/': Problem
> with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)
>
> What is strange is that only some of the build servers are giving this
> error (constantly) -- e.g.,
> http://jenkins.ros.org/job/ros-indigo-ros-web-video_binarydeb_trusty_i386/3/console
>
> Any thoughts?
>

See this thread from a few days ago:
http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-release/2014-April/004414.html

Rich