Re: Automated report: NetBSD-current/i386 build failure

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 06:35:29PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:33:10PM +0200, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> > 
> > Your assumption is correct, and the next build did succeed.  Sorry about
> > the false alarm.  If only there was a way to mirror the repository that
> > would guarantee a consistent snapshot...
> 
> Not really possible; CVS does not have changelists.  You can't do any
> better than it does for the developers themselves!

Well, you can try a bit harder at least. What I am doing to avoid
unnecessary forks for the automatic repository conversion is introducing
a quiescence period. If a change was found by rsync, sleep for 2min and
check again until the repository is quiet. It works well enough most of
the time.

Joerg