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A recuring pattern in the past two weeks has been the need to resolve a situation where the build machines and the associated respositories could not be used because either:

• the reprepro repository rejected one of the packages found in a build machine because of a checksum error, i.e. because it contained the same version of the package with a different checksum
• the packaging-farm installed on the build machine claimed it had no work to do
• packages were not manually submitted to the build machine

In the following each source of confusion is analyzed and clarified.

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A default configuration file for submit-xivo.sh was created to avoid typos. When the environment of submit-xivo.sh changes, the sources are rebuilt. The 2.0.14 version of packaging-farm was released with these modifications, installed on all build machines with the associated migrations.

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The production version of gallifrey was rebuilt to strip the timestamp and hash. A compilation problem with sangoma-wanpipe blocking the development version of gallifrey was diagnosed. A bug on kernel-modules dependencies was fixed. To avoid confusion the build configuration files were moved to /etc/packaging-farm. The 2.0.13 version of packaging-farm was released with these modifications, installed on all build machines with the associated migrations.

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The version 2.0.12 of packaging-farm was published with modifications to the package version conventions and disk usage optimization. The gallifrey production and development build machines were upgraded and the errors found when trying to rebuild were reported.

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