[Vm-dev] travis linux package cache out of date?

[Fabio Niephaus]

The discussion has been moved to
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/261 ...

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:55 PM Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Linux builds have been failing recently with error messages like:
>
> E: Failed to fetch http://something.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 35.184.213.5
> 80]
>
> I've seen these types of errors on my machine, typically when I forget
> to run apt-get update before attempting to install or upgrade
> packages.
>
> @Rydier kindly provided some supporting evidence for the problem:
>
> --
> Error logs of linux builds for
> https://travis-ci.org/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/jobs/378430866
> (and onwards) state they try loading
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-4.8/libx32itm1_4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3_amd64.deb
> while the file on server is
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-4.8/libx32itm1_4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4_amd64.deb
> so an out-of-date package cache is the likely culprit?
> --
>
>
> I've created an experimental branch which appears to solve the problem:
>
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/261
>
> However I would expect that the travis infrastructure should
> automatically update build environments to ensure that the package
> cache is up to date.
>
> Can someone who is familiar with travis perhaps confirm that this is
> the correct approach, or suggest a better alternative (one possibility
> is that we keep this until the infrastructure is updated and then
> revert it).
>
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>
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