buildbot is not happy with branches

[Colin Barrett]

Should be fixed. Our version of buildbot's handling of Mercurial branches is kinda weird.

We probably should update, our version is somewhat old. Seems like the system copy of Twisted will need updating though, newer versions seem require 8.0.x. (ours is significantly older than that).

Further sysadmin discussion probably shouldn't happen on a public list though :)

-Colin

On Apr 3, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Thijs Alkemade wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Can someone with access to buildbot see why it's doing this:
> 
> http://buildbot.adium.im/builders/adium/builds/695/steps/hg/logs/stdio
> 
> The last commit was on a branch, and buildbot does notice tip is not on default ("Working dir is on in-repo branch 'AILoggerWithBlocks' and build needs 'default'. Cloberring."), then tries to do "hg purge --all" (which fails because the purge extension is not enabled) then it trashes the whole build directory and makes a whole new clone, lastly it does something which I assume would be to identify head of default, but in the end it still ends up with tip.
> 
> All of this makes the update part alone take around 10 minutes, and I don't think it's desired that anything other than default is built (at the very least, not for the nightly).
> 
> Thijs