What is happening with the 1.11.2 (nee 1.11.1) release

[David Cheney]

+cc: jamespage


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:30 PM, David Cheney <david.cheney at canonical.com>wrote:

> Ok, mystery number one solved. The reason why the go-curl/precise issue
> didn't show up in the PPA build is the recipe only builds cmd/juju and
> cmd/jujud and gwacl is not part of that build. When it did become a part of
> the build this would have failed on precise.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:33 PM, David Cheney <david.cheney at canonical.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is a short status update on the 1.11.2 release.
>>
>> The release was originally scheduled for the friday, there was a delay
>> while a final bug fix was committed, as the 1.11.1 tag was cut by then, the
>> release version has been bumped to 1.11.2. Sorry for the confusion.
>>
>> The next attempt at the release was made this Monday. The code built fine
>> and was pushed in to the juju/devel PPA, and tools tarballs were pushed up
>> to s3 however during the release validation afterwards this release was not
>> able to bootstrap any ec2 environments (status of other environments
>> unknown; not attempted).
>>
>> Building locally from the same source failed to reproduce the problem.
>> Searching the archive this issue has happened before,
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju-dev/2013-April/000913.html, but
>> we failed to investigate at the time.
>>
>> During diagnosis of this problem a new issue was discovered[1]; juju-core
>> cannot build on Precise builders due to a bug in the version of Go that
>> ships with P.
>>
>> What is more confusing is on Monday a successful build of 1.11.2 was made
>> from a builder that claims to be running Precise. Trying to replicate this
>> on a Precise machine showed that 1.11.2 could _not_ be built on Precise.
>>
>> So, we have at least two problems. Both are related to what the builders
>> have installed on them and the way it affects the final bits that lands the
>> juju/devel PPA.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1196811
>>
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