Re: Somewhat urgent help with CVS tagging please!

[Russ Sherk]

On 7/25/05, S I <address@hidden> wrote:
> Over this past weekend my automated builds totally screwed up tagging CVS'
> MAINLINE and skipping an entire folder (widgets) with about 50 subfolders in
> it due to Operator error: That's me! :(
> 
> What happend is that I had left a DOS box (in my WinXP desktop) opened &
> pointing to a specific subfolder within its parent folder (widgets). Which
> prevented Anthill from deleting the whole  widgets folder.  As a result
> skipping & tagging widgets & all its subfolders.  But he grand-parent folder
> and all other subfolders under it got built and tagged, except the widgets
> folder.
> 
> What I don't understand:
> 
> 1. Is that I don't see any complaint in my log files yet; haven't checked
> the Tomcat logs yet.
> 
> 2. If Anthill, or windows services, or Tomcat were stalled & waiting for
> this folder to be deleted, shouldn't they have stopped completely and have
> sent a "Build Failure" email?
> 
> 3. Becuase the DOS box was left open all weekend long, naturally, the same
> tagging problem propagated into 3 successive builds.
> 
> I can't think of anything else having cause this behavior. Any ideas? Any
> solution or quick fix ideas for me how to retag the missing dirs or should I
> declare the 3 builds as not good?

Suggestions:
- If possible, use rtag instead of tagging a local sandbox.
- Add a 'remove -> check removal -> fail if removal failed' sequence
to your build.
- Also, if possible create a new directory for each build (e.g.
revision or timestamp).  Then create a cleaner that removes outdated
builds (or do the ol' rm -rf/deltree thing manually).

> 
> thanks
> 
> steve
> 
> 
> 
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Cheers,

--Russ