[Ros-release] Fuerte pre-release failing, "Unable to locate package"

[Ken Conley]

To add, it's a condition that doesn't happen very frequently, and
would take a lot of extra infrastructure to support.

I was thinking of sending an e-mail to ros-release yesterday to ask
that people hold off from doing Fuerte releases right now so that we
can spin the final RC, which is related to the above error condition
that you saw.  Basically, this RC week is not a good week to be doing
releases.  I decided not to as we can ultimately deal with it, but you
will see conditions like the above more often because we have to sync
much more often.

 - Ken

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Wim Meeussen <meeussen at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> Would it be possible to delay the prerelease builds in that case until the
>> main debs are built, and send a warning email instead of failing? I guess
>> that could save some useless cycles in setting up the prereleases all over
>> again.
>
>
> That is pretty much what the prerelease test does. To do this check it needs
> to first download the stack(s) that you are testing, find out what their
> dependencies are, and then query the apt repository for these dependencies.
> Instead of running these checks from a hudson node in a chroot environment,
> we could run them on the server that creates prerelease jobs. However, that
> approach would not scale very well when the number of requests goes up.
> Wim
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