Print updatecheck.py
output if it fails during make-release.py
#6062
Labels
A-dependencies
Area: Dependencies
C-release
Category: This is an issue corresponding to the creation of a specific release.
dev policy
I-error-handling
Problems and improvements related to error handling
The release script
zcutil/makerelease.py
blocks on C++ dependencies being either up-to-date or postponed. This is checked byqa/zcash/updatecheck.py
, but that currently has a problem where running it too many times in a row can hit API rate limits (#6061). Right now, when the release script fails for this reason, the user will likely run the update checker script manually to figure out what the cause was, reducing the number of times they can run it while fixing the problem, and potentially blocking the release process entirely.We should print out the output of
updatecheck.py
in this situation to ease the API rate limit pressure a bit.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: