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Monday, December 29, 2008 2:26 PM

Need ideas for setting up build process

I have my build process divided up into the building of the binaries (as one CruiseControl project) and the packaging of the binaries into deployable packages (MSI installations) as a separate project. This is valuable for a couple of reasons, but the...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:41 PM

What causes automated builds to fail? - follow up

I had IT check the CVS server for any error event in the event log and we found that there were disk I/O errors that often occurred right around the same time as some (all?) of my mysterious CVS errors. IT dropped in some new hardware, but that still...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:34 PM

Learning to build on Linux and FreeBSD

Here's a fun new project! My current build process uses CruiseControl on a (windows) machine to kick off an nant or msbuild build script that also runs on that same windows machine. For one of my projects I've just been informed that we are branching...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:52 AM

What causes automated builds to fail?

In the past 8-10 weeks I've had a nightmare trying to get a reliable build process. Here's the numbers of what's causing the build to fail *other* than normal coding errors: 30 failures due to CVS temp directory problems 2 failures due to...
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