Re: many animals are running old clients - Mailing list buildfarm-members

On 08/18/2018 06:48 AM, Mikael Kjellström wrote:
>
> On 2018-08-17 23:27, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> The majority of buildfarm animals are not on the latest client code 
>> release. Version 8 was released more than 3 months ago. There are 26 
>> animals on release 7 and 43 on even older releases, in one case on a 
>> release going back 4 years. See below for the lists of delinquents.
>
> I've updated all my animals below to version 8.
>
>
>>   conchuela    | mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com | 007000
>>   grison       | mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com | 007000
>>   loach        | mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com | 007000
>>   sidewinder   | mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com | 007000
>>   curculio      | mikael.kjellstrom@gmail.com | 004018

Thanks.

>
> It might be worth to send out a email directly to the animal owners 
> that a new version is out.  It's easy to miss if you don't follow the 
> mailing lists.



Mail goes to the buildfarm-members list. That should be sufficiently 
specific. Having to email owners individually would be unpleasant.


>
> Just a suggestion.
>
> And regarding:
>
> "I do my best to keep things backwards compatible, so that usually an 
> upgrade is simply a matter of unpacking the release and you're done. I 
> don't think asking people to do that once every few months is terribly 
> onerous. It's a five minute job."
>
> Every time I upgrade I need to go through all the .pl-files and change 
> the path to where perl is located as different os/distros has perl at 
> different paths and also it's not even consistent within the shipped 
> files.
>
> For example:
>
> % head -n 1 *.pl
> ==> run_branches.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ==> run_build.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ==> run_web_txn.pl <==
> #!/c/perl/bin/perl
>
> ==> setnotes.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ==> update_personality.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> I also go through the config-file line by line to see if anything is 
> changed or added.
>
> It's not a big deal though.  Keep up the good work!
>
> /Mikael


run_web_txn.pl is only ever used on Windows/msys, that's why its path is 
different. If you're not using one of those systems you can safely 
ignore it.

Would it help if I added a script to set the perl locations? 
Alternatively, we could switch to using /usr/bin/env, but I'm not sure 
how universal it is. And if you want to use a non-distro perl it 
possibly won't help anyway.


cheers

andrew

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