commit d739caeb848d0cc35d0c0e8914ca8fc45033b237 Author: Mike Perry mikeperry-git@torproject.org Date: Thu Jun 27 16:49:34 2013 -0700

Suggest that people save their base VMs or help us write a test script. --- gitian/README.build | 5 +++++ gitian/TODO | 10 +++++++--- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitian/README.build b/gitian/README.build index d16e5e2..41d0494 100644 --- a/gitian/README.build +++ b/gitian/README.build @@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ Known Issues and Quirks: You probably want to make sure you have no stray qemu processes before rebuilding the VMs or starting a new build, too.

+ Once you get a working set of base VMs (in ../../gitian-builder/base-*), + you should probably copy them somewhere safe if you want to avoid VM + creation hangs in the future (or help us write a wrapper script that + tests VMs and re-runs the VM creation step if they don't boot). + 2. One out of every 50 builds or so, 'make' locks up at some point during a build, probably due to timestamp issues inside the Gitian VM. The symptoms of this are a hung build where the VM or LXC container processes diff --git a/gitian/TODO b/gitian/TODO index d54bebf..aa9c4e1 100644 --- a/gitian/TODO +++ b/gitian/TODO @@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ Short Term: - Too many libevent libs are included.. Only need a couple

Mid Term: - - Linux: - - Verify nothing critical is due to expire from 'ubuntu-support-status' - - For now, looks like just faketime and rcv.. + - Write a VM test+rebuild script + - Sometimes VM creation produces a base image that won't boot, especially + for the 'Precise' images used by windows. + - We should test boot it and if it fails, blow it away and try again. - Windows TBB crashes if there's a system tor installed? - And/or if you install to c:\Program Files and run as non-Admin - Docs are missing @@ -55,6 +56,9 @@ Mid Term: - I think we don't care? Torbutton's new tor test should fail..

Long Term: + - Linux: + - Verify nothing critical is due to expire from 'ubuntu-support-status' + - For now, looks like just faketime and rcv.. - Offline building - Requires special VM setup. - Compile the toolchain, too?