[Building Sakai] Variable success of trunk build (builds.sakaiproject.org, nightly2.sakaiproject.org, others?)

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Would you advise to use this kind of configuration for the community 
server, Matthew?

J-F

On 14/12/2010 13:46, Matthew Buckett wrote:
> On 13 December 2010 10:47, Jean-Francois Leveque
> <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>  wrote:
>> While http://builds.sakaiproject.org:8080/job/sakai%20trunk/ shows no
>> build failure in the past week, nightly2.sakaiproject.org has failed to
>> build at 04:28 today when trying to get jsf:jsf-api:jar:1.1.01 for
>> building chat while chat's trunk code has not changed for 2 weeks.
>>
>> Does hudson have something others don't when building that prevents it
>> from failing?
> I think nightly2 builds against a clean maven repository, but hudson
> by default doesn't clean it's maven repository out. So the error of
> one of the repositories being available was masked by hudson having a
> locally cached copy.
>
> Locally we have a nightly hudson build which builds against a private
> maven repository that gets cleaned out. One way todo this is to have a
> prebuild task with a POM of:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
>          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
> http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
>    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
>    <name>Clean Maven Repository</name>
>    <groupId>org.sakaiproject</groupId>
>    <artifactId>clean-repo</artifactId>
>    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
>    <packaging>pom</packaging>
>    <!-- Warning this will delete everything in your maven repository -->
>    <build>
>      <plugins>
>        <plugin>
>          <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
>            <inherited>false</inherited>
>            <configuration>
>              <filesets>
>                <fileset>
>                  <directory>${settings.localRepository}/</directory>
>                  <includes>
>                    <include>**/*</include>
>                  </includes>
>                  <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
>                </fileset>
>              </filesets>
>            </configuration>
>          </plugin>
>      </plugins>
>    </build>
> </project>
>
> and then to run a mvn clean using this POM