Re: Just one Travis Mac OS build failed

On 07/15/20 07:57, Kartik Ohri wrote:
>>
>> Does Travis have any third status for a build, between 'succeeded' and
>> 'failed', like 'skipped'?
>>
> It is not possible to mark skipped. It is possible to mark succeeded but I
> think that will be more dangerous than the red. I had a thought that we
> could have a serverless function in the cloud somewhere. We can try to
> detect if the failure is due to download error in macports and send a
> signal to the function. Then the job is terminated immediately. The
> function then triggers this failed job by submitting an API call. Since,
> the issue vanishes on retrying, doing such retries for at most a 2-3 times
> would work. What do you think?

That sounds rather elaborate. Maybe it would be enough to simply check
for the prerequisites early, and just fail the job with a very short
log file that says MACPORTS FAILED TO DOWNLOAD - RE-RUN JOB. There would
still be red on the dashboard but it would be easy to see why.

Regards,
-Chap