On 8/27/19 10:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tom Turelinckx" <pgbf@twiska.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> I think this is the problem:
>>> 'scmrepo' => '/home/pgbf/pgmirror.git',
>>> Probably this isn't updated often enough. It probably has little to do with the clock settings.
>> The configuration is intentionally like that. I specifically configured skate and snapper to build the exact same
source,where skate builds with default buildfarm settings, while snapper builds with the settings actually used by
Debiansource packages.
> TBH, I don't find that particularly important ... especially not for HEAD
> builds, where building a many-hours-old snapshot is pretty much in the
> category of "why bother?". On the whole, I think building from the latest
> available source is the most useful policy. If there's some platform-
> or configuration-specific issue, it usually takes more than one build
> cycle for us to notice it anyway, so that ensuring two animals have exactly
> comparable builds at any given instant isn't very helpful.
>
>
Yeah, point. snapper seems the more important box here.
cheers
andrew
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