Re: Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Subject Re: Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification
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Msg-id 4505A90E.8070501@kaltenbrunner.cc
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In response to Re: Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> 
>> well I think Andrew is more scared of having multiple boxes on the
>> buildfarm all stating to be "Debian testing" or "Debian unstable" but
>> without much information on how regulary those boxes are actually synced
>> to those moving/changing branches and causing discussions on "why is it
>> suddenly failung on that box but not on the other".
> 
> It might make sense to attach the version information (in this case,
> gcc, glibc, kernel versions) to each particular test run, rather than to
> each particular farm member.

that is a good idea generally but that information might not be
available in a portable way on all platforms (and even than we might
want to have version information on things/libs like readline,zlib,ldap,
too) ...


Stefan


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