[plt-dev] Push #20327: The DrDr now makes house calls

Hmm, yes. I can probably fix it on Tuesday. But for now if you set
TMPDIR to something on the same partition before calling it it should
be fine.

Jay

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> It seems house calls don't work if $RACKET_HOME and /var are not on
> the same partition:
>
> vincent at desktop:drdr$ racket house-call.ss -- -j 4
> rename-file-or-directory: cannot rename file or directory: /var/tmp/mztmp12751477681275147768880 to: /home/vincent/src/plt/collects/meta/drdr/./../../../house-calls/builds/2455346/commit-msg (Invalid cross-device link; errno=18)
>
>  === context ===
> /home/vincent/src/plt/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow.rkt:1434:3
> /home/vincent/src/plt/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow.rkt:1434:3
> /home/vincent/src/plt/collects/meta/drdr/house-call.ss: [running body]
>
>
> Vincent
>
>
> At Tue, 25 May 2010 15:04:21 -0600,
> Jay McCarthy wrote:
>>
>> If you are using Git and want to test a change against the whole
>> repository in the same way DrDr does, run:
>>
>> racket -t $RACKET_HOME/collects/meta/drdr/house-call.ss -- -j $CPUS
>>
>> It should run for about 10 minutes, sending an immense amount of
>> information to the screen, eventually producing a list of files that
>> had "problems". If you put any of these back on the command-line:
>>
>> racket -t $RACKET_HOME/collects/meta/drdr/house-call.ss -- -j $CPUS file
>>
>> It will show the log of when it ran 'file'.
>>
>> The DrDr keeps its house call records in $RACKET_HOME/house-calls
>> indexed by Julian date. It is always safe to delete this whole
>> directory. If a record is in this directory, then DrDr won't check it
>> again until the next day.
>>
>> It runs exactly as it would on the real DrDr server, except no GUI
>> files are run if your system-type is not 'unix and it relies on Xvfb
>> and fluxbox to run a sandbox X11 server.
>>
>> Jay
>>
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"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93