Wrong "Request ignored - there are currently unfinished builds for this revision"

[Niklaus Giger]

Hi

I was playing around with my project and got into a deadlock.

I made a revision in my subversion repository like this:
file mkinstalldirs is a logical link
$ ln -s /source/to/mkinstalldirs mkinstalldirs
$ svn add mkinstalldirs
$ svn commit
// autogen.sh-Output neu
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// r184 | niklaus | 2006-01-07 14:46:04 +0100 (Sam, 07 Jan 2006) | 1 line
$ svn rm mkinstalldirs  
$ cp /source/to/mkinstalldirs mkinstalldirs
$ svn add mkinstalldirs
$ svn commit
// gives e.g. revision 168
// autogen.sh-Output as files
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// r185 | niklaus | 2006-01-07 16:31:36 +0100 (Sam, 07 Jan 2006) | 1 line

This is okay for subversion, but in my damagecontrol project I got the
following error (as shown in stderr in a build)
/mnt/data.ng/src/dc_data/projects/1/working_copy niklaus$ svn update
--revision 186
svn: Konnte die Datei 'mkinstalldirs' nicht hinzufgen: ein Objekt mit
demselben Namen existiert bereits
(in english) svn: could not add file 'mkinstalldirs': a object with the same
name exists already).

DEAD_LOCK!! Now if click on "Request a build" in the corresponding revision I
get the error "Request ignored - there are currently unfinished builds for
this revision".

How do I recover from a situation like this? How can we avoid getting into
this situation?

I think there a certainly a myriad of possible causes, that an update does not
complete successfully (broken connection, temporarily problems with disks,
etc).

I tried to reproduce the subversion error by repeatedly getting the revisions
into a clean working directory. Never got this error again.

Best regards

--
Niklaus Giger

[Steven Woolgar]

I've been trying to get DamageControl up and running with the meager  
documentation provided.
It does not work on my system, and all of the useful links are stale.

For instance:

<http://hieraki.lavalamp.ca/>

and most importantly the source code link:

<http://hieraki.lavalamp.ca/read/chapter/2#page2>

is also dead.

Any ideas?

TIA


Woolie