Fwd: buildbot failure in MacPorts on buildports-mtln-x86_64

[David Evans]

On 2/5/15 11:18 AM, David Evans wrote:
> On 2/5/15 10:16 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>>> Forwarded to sysadmin for action.  I'm afraid I inadvertantly caused
>>> this by stopping a build of inkscape last
>>> night.  Sorry for any inconvenience.
>> Does this mean our activation step is no longer transactional (as a file
>> is installed, recording it)?
>>
>>
>>
> Someone more familiar with base than I would have to answer this.
>
> However, empirically, if port is killed during the activation step, it 
> is possible
> that it will end in a state where some files have been activated and 
> some not.
> When this occurs, activation as  a whole is recorded as complete. 

Make that 'activation as a while is NOT recorded as complete'.

> Thus the
> next time activation is attempted an error will occur when a file is 
> found to exist
> and is not recorded as belonging (activated by) the port in question.
>
> I guess to be fully transactional in this situation, port might trap 
> any kill signal and
> roll back any partial activations before exiting.
>
> It doesn't appear that it does this at present.
>
>
>
>
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