Series initialization might end up as a partially initialised series
Bug #801112 reported by
Raphaël Badin
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Bug Description
Series initialization uses the packagecopier which works in an atomic way, so it might deny the copy of all the sources because of a simple conflict with one source. This might lead to a partially initialised series which we currently have no way to recover from.
| description: | updated |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
Revision history for this message
| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Low → High |
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| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | High → Low |
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This is part of a bigger problem where we have the choice of
a) a long transaction that allows us to atomically roll back in case of errors (and we know long transactions are bad)
b) many short transactions but a partially initialised series
In the case of (b) we have a lot of code that will break when a series is partially initialised. It needs to be tracked down and fixed to use a new boolean on the Distroseries table. For example, many places use IArchive.