Re: Jenkins problem or patch problem?

[Andrew Wang <an...@cloudera.com>]

I filed a JIRA to track applying binary patches, posted some notes from a
quick investigation:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10926


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Wang <an...@cloudera.com>
wrote:

> We could change test-patch to use "git apply" instead of the patch
> command. I know a lot of us use git apply when committing, so it seems like
> a safe change.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Niels Basjes <Ni...@basjes.nl> wrote:
>
>> I think this behavior is better.
>> This way you know you patch was not (fully) applied.
>>
>> It would be even better if there was a way to submit a patch with a binary
>> file in there.
>>
>> Niels
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Wang <an...@cloudera.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I had the same issue on HDFS-6696, patch generated with "git diff
>> > --binary". I ended up making the same patch without the binary part and
>> it
>> > could be applied okay.
>> >
>> > This does differ in behavior from the old boxes, which were still able
>> to
>> > apply the non-binary parts of a binary-diff.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Niels Basjes <Ni...@basjes.nl> wrote:
>> >
>> > > For my test case I needed a something.txt.gz file
>> > > However for this specific test this file will never be actually read,
>> it
>> > > just has to be there and it must be a few bytes in size.
>> > > Because binary files do't work I simply created a file containging
>> "Hello
>> > > world"
>> > > Now this isn't a gzip file at all, yet for my test it does enough to
>> make
>> > > the test work as intended.
>> > >
>> > > So in fact I didn't solve the binary attachment problem at all.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Mind telling us how you included the binary file in your svn patch ?
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Niels Basjes <Ni...@basjes.nl>
>> > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I created a patch file with SVN and it works now.
>> > > > > I dare to ask: Are there any git created patch files that work?
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Niels Basjes <Ni...@basjes.nl>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > I'll look for a workaround regarding the binary file. Thanks.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >> Similar problem has been observed for HBase patches.
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > > >> Have you tried attaching level 1 patch ?
>> > > > > >> For the binary file, to my knowledge, 'git apply' is able to
>> > handle
>> > > it
>> > > > > but
>> > > > > >> hadoop is currently using svn.
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > > >> Cheers
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > > >> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Niels Basjes <
>> Niels@basjes.nl>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > > >> > Hi,
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > I just submitted a patch and Jenkins said it failed to apply
>> the
>> > > > > patch.
>> > > > > >> > But when I look at the console output
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > >
>> https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-MAPREDUCE-Build/4771//console
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > it says:
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > At revision 1613826.
>> > > > > >> > MAPREDUCE-2094 patch is being downloaded at Sun Jul 27
>> 18:50:44
>> > > UTC
>> > > > > >> > 2014 fromhttp://
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12658034/MAPREDUCE-2094-20140727.patch*cp
>> > > > > >> > :
>> > > > > >> > cannot stat '/home/jenkins/buildSupport/lib/*': No such file
>> or
>> > > > > >> > directory
>> > > > > >> > *The patch does not appear to apply with p0 to p2
>> > > > > >> > PATCH APPLICATION FAILED
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > Now I do have a binary file (for the unit test) in this
>> patch,
>> > > > > perhaps I
>> > > > > >> > did something wrong? Or is this problem caused by the error I
>> > > > > >> highlighted?
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > What can I do to fix this?
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > --
>> > > > > >> > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >> > Niels Basjes
>> > > > > >> >
>> > > > > >>
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > --
>> > > > > > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Niels Basjes
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --
>> > > > > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Niels Basjes
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> > >
>> > > Niels Basjes
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,
>>
>> Niels Basjes
>>
>
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