CruiseControl.NET build fails when SVN is not available

Question

We have an SVN repository hosted externally and our build server is currently internal. Occasionally (probably 1 or 2 times a day) the build server is unable to find the SVN repository due to a network outage, a timeout or some other random reason. With an externally hosted repository this is hard to avoid, however when it fails to find the SVN repository it fails the build!

I would like to find a way for it to just try again at the next interval and ignore any errors relating to an unfound repository. Does anyone know how I can do this?

I have posted my config for reference below.

<project name="MyProject" queuePriority="0">
<workingDirectory>C:\RemovedForPost</workingDirectory>
<artifactDirectory>C:\RemovedForPost </artifactDirectory>
<sourcecontrol type="svn">
  <trunkUrl>http://RemovedForPost \</trunkUrl>
  <workingDirectory>source</workingDirectory>
  <username>myuser</username>
  <password>*****</password>
</sourcecontrol>
<triggers>
  <intervalTrigger name="BuildAMinute" seconds="60" buildCondition="IfModificationExists" />
</triggers>
<tasks>
  <msbuild>
    <executable>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe</executable>
    <workingDirectory>C:\RemovedForPost</workingDirectory>
    <projectFile>C:\RemovedForPost\RemovedForPost.sln</projectFile>
    <buildArgs>/noconsolelogger /p:Configuration=Debug /v:diag</buildArgs>
    <targets>Build</targets>
    <logger>C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.MsBuild.dll</logger>
    <timeout>120</timeout>
  </msbuild>
  <nunit>
    <path>C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.5\bin\net-2.0\nunit-console.exe</path>
    <outputfile>C:\RemovedForPost.xml</outputfile>
    <assemblies>
      <assembly> RemovedForPost </assembly>
    </assemblies>
    <timeout>60</timeout>
  </nunit>
</tasks>

Thanks

Answer 1

Correction. All of what you want is in the new settings

CruiseControl.NET docs

You can set it to not report a failure until max retries is set. So make max at 3 and set it to only move onto the publisher (ie fail the build) unit it hits the limit. So 1 or 2 misses will be ok, but then 3 fail the build something is wrong.