[Buildbot-devel] [PATCH] Fix that clobber sourcestep fails if leftover chmod 000 subdirectories (ticket#29)

[Kristian Nielsen]

Ian Zimmerman <itz at clustrix.com> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:25:53 +0100
> Kristian Nielsen <knielsen at knielsen-hq.org> wrote:

>> We have experienced some problems where a builder gets stuck with a
>> failing clobber source step that requires manual intervention to fix.

>> I have committed a patch (with unit test):

> Has this made it to 0.7.12?  I've been struggling with this problem as
> well, so far I have worked around it by adding a couple of steps to the
> end of the build to do chown, chgrp, chmod -R on the workdir.

Yes, this should be in 0.7.12. It is the slave that needs to be upgraded for
this fix to take effect.

 - Kristian.