[R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] Re: win-builder down?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

FYI, in past when queues got stuck, Uwe told me it's often a package that
launches an external process (e.g. java.exe) that doesn't terminate and
prevents R CMD check from terminating/timing out. He got watchdogs to kill
such stray events but there are false negatives.

A couple of weeks ago I proposed to add a placeholder for the package
currently tested and Uwe said he might look into it, e.g.

$ curl ftp://win-builder.r-project.org/R-devel/
02-05-20  03:10PM              2359737 bayestestR_0.5.2.tar.gz
02-05-20  11:42AM                          0
some.pkg_0.0.1.tar.gz-PROCESSING
02-05-20  11:56AM              5053108 catdata_1.2.2.tar.gz

Even if it doesn't solve the problem, it'll communicate to "us" that
something is stuck and what it is.

Anyway, we can help out by reporting (like this) when a queue look stuck.
Then I think it helps to clarify which queue/builder is stuck.

Henrik


On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 15:13 Rolf Turner <r.turner using auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

>
> On 1/03/20 11:44 am, Max Kuhn wrote:
>
> > On February 29, 2020 at 5:06:35 PM, Rolf Turner (r.turner using auckland.ac.nz
> > <mailto:r.turner using auckland.ac.nz>) wrote:
> >>
> >> On 1/03/20 2:23 am, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is it down again? I'm seeing the same problem again.
> >> > Hadley
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 2:41 PM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com
> <mailto:h.wickham using gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> Is win-builder down? I submitted a couple of packages >24 hours ago,
> >> >> and haven't heard back.
> >> >>
> >> >> Hadley
> >>
> >> Me too. Submitted a package about 18 hours ago, and so far not a
> >> sausage. Although it's churlish to complain, one gets used to a service
> >> that has been provided and gets annoyed when the service disappears.
> >
> > True, but it would be unnecessary if `R CMD check —as-cran` did exactly
> > the same thing as win-builder (as well as the extra, informal checks
> > done on a first submission).
>
> Not entirely true.  The package that I am currently trying to get built
> is for use by some consulting clients and is not (yet) for public
> release.  So I can't/don't submit it to CRAN so as to get a Windoze
> binary that way.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
> P.S. I note that the winbuilder web site says:
>
> >  Please do not upload Bioconductor packages or CRAN packages.
> >  Both Bioconductor and CRAN do have build systems ....
>
> I presume that this exhortation is of some antiquity and is "no longer
> operative".
>
> R.
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