Re: Why is this build considered a failure by hydra?

[Andreas Enge]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 05:14:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I’ve just restarted it, and now it looks as succeeding.

This is something I have occasionally observed before, even without offload-
ing: A build log shows that everything worked well, and the build fails.
Restarting the build solved the problem.

> Offloading failed in some way.  hydra.gnunet.org was down for some time,
> so perhaps we hit that just at this moment.  Or some networking issue
> occurred just as we were retrieving the build outputs to hydra.gnu.org
> (although these are normally distinguished from permanent build
> failures, and marked as aborted.)  Or there’s a bug in the offload hook.

So this may be true, but the problem may also be unrelated to offloading.

Andreas