[Maas-devel] Jenkins Still Failing - maas-trunk 755

[Raphaël Badin]

On 09/04/2012 08:13 AM, Raphaël Badin wrote:
>
>> This is failing because it's failing to contact pypi to download
>> dependencies.
>>
>> I know this has been mentioned before but I think we need to start
>> looking at
>> managing a dependencies tarball or buildout cache.
>>
>> Any comments on this before I kick it off?
>
> Having a shared buildout cache would definitely be a more permanent
> solution but this particular error is triggered by the fact that the
> version of python-mock referenced by MAAS is 1.0b1 and the one present
> in precise is 0.7.2.  Any reason why we decided to use a more recent
> version than the one in precise?  Because using the same version would
> have allowed us to simply install the package on the Jenkins box to
> avoid having the build try to download it every time.

As a temporary workaround I manually copied the
mock-1.0b1-py2.7.egg/ in ~/.buildout/eggs on the Jenkins box to fix the 
build.