2011-02-25 builder incident - summary

[William Grant]

On 27/02/11 04:45, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, February 25, 2011 09:00:05 pm Kate Stewart wrote:
>> Dear Developers,
>>
>>    Earlier today (14:39 UTC) our builders had their sudo package updated
>> to 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.3 from Version: 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.8.  This had an
>> unexpected side affect of setting the permissions with different
>> defaults.  This resulted in bad permissions being generated for several
>> packages that otherwise built successfully.  This change has now been
>> reverted.
>>
>> The affected packages have been rebuilt and the builders have been
>> turned on again.
>>
>> A list of the known affected packages between 14:39 UTC and 21:13 UTC
>> (when we turned off the builders) can be found:
>>
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/572428/
>>
>> If you are aware of other packages that could have been affected, after
>> checking their permissions,  please join us on #ubuntu-devel to discuss.
>>
>> Thanks,  Kate
> 
> It's not clear this is finished. Some additional suspicious builds were 
> identified and the i386/amd64 builders are on manual again.

Five of the builders were not properly fixed (sudo was not downgraded).
This has now been resolved, and the build farm is back. Misbuilt
packages will be reuploaded once we work out what was affected.

I'll watch for more breakage throughout the day, and hopefully remember
to reply to this thread if something shows up again.

Thanks,
William.

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