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[Tom Haddon <tom.haddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:14 +1300, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > James Westby wrote:
> >> On Thu Oct 29 14:42:59 +0000 2009 James Westby wrote:
> >>> This means that in probably the next 2-24 hours I will get a notification that
> >>> lucid is created and we should create the branches for it.
> >> I have just recieved this notification. Lucid is now created and so we can
> >> create branches for it.
> > 
> > I'll work with a LOSA to get this done today.
> 
> So we couldn't run it today because I forgot that the script I wrote 
> equired adding a user to the database config of the production database 
> until after the people who can approve this had left for the day :-(
> 
> Assuming such approval can be gotten tomorrow, here's what needs to be 
> done:
> 
> 1) Get approval to add the 'branch-distro' dbuser from the first hunk of 
> https://pastebin.canonical.com/24075/ to the production database, and 
> allow codehost@crowberry to connect as this user.

We got approval and I've opened up DB access.

> 2) Run this command on crowberry:
> 
> /srv/bazaar.launchpad.net/production/mwh-rev-8539-plus/scripts/branch-distro.py ubuntu karmic lucid 

This is running. It was called as follows:

codehost@crowberry:/srv/bazaar.launchpad.net/production/mwh-db-stable
$ ./scripts/branch-distro.py ubuntu karmic lucid >
~/mwh-branch-lucid.log 2>&1

> Save the output somehow.  You can measure it's progress by seeing how
> many branches are at https://code.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid (it
> should produce as many there as there are official branches in lucid, 
> which is a little under 16000).
> 
> 3) The script may fall over, in which case the right thing to do is
> restart it.  If it seems to be repeatedly falling over without making
> progress (you can run with -v to check this) debugging will be required.
> I recommend jml for this job :-)

I'll keep an eye on it.

Cheers, Tom

> 4) If eventually the script completes successfully (it will likely take 
> ~6 hours judging by our staging tests, production might be faster or 
> slower), run
> 
> /srv/bazaar.launchpad.net/production/mwh-rev-8539-plus/scripts/branch-distro.py ubuntu karmic lucid --check
> 
> Save the output and tell me and James W. (at least) where it is.
> 
> I'm sorry for not thinking through how we'd run this on production :(
> 
> Cheers,
> mwh
> 
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