On 28 July 2013 07:24, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> I noticed that the VM tarball jobs on build.squeak.org (InterpreterVM and
> CogVM jobs) have been failing for some time. These jobs use the latest trunk
> image from the SqueakTrunk job, which is supposed to be a base Squeak image
> updated from the trunk stream (see http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk/).
> However, that image is missing the ST80 package entirely (which indirectly
> causes the VM tarball job failures).
>
> I tried to update the image (world menu -> help... -> update code from
> server) in hopes that this would load the missing packages, but this fails
> due to some other problem.
>
> The project comment for the SqueakTrunk job says:
>
>  * Take a base image (currently 4.5-12565), update it, archive the result.
>  * Run the entire suite of in-image tests.
>
> I think that I had mistakenly assumed that the "SqueakTrunk" job was a release
> image updated from the trunk stream, but actually it must be a stripped "base"
> image with packages reloaded, and maybe the reloading part has forgotten to
> install ST80. Is that right?

Yes. ReleaseSqueakTrunk contains a rehydrated/full fat Squeak image
_with_ ST80 and friends loaded.

Sorry! I should have noticed the failing builds and connected that
with the recent stripping of ST80.

frank

> Dave
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