I'm trying to start preparing buildfarm nodes for the upcoming Git migration, and have run into a few issues. I speculate that -hackers is one of the better places for this to get discussed; if it should be elsewhere, I'm sure Andrew Dunstan won't be shy to redirect this :-).
What I was hoping to do was to run nodes for a little while against the repo at git://github.com/oicu/pg-cvs-mirror.git to validate that it all works against git. The best instructions available thus far... <http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Buildfarm_Howto> Unfortunately, I'm finding some anomalies in terms of differences between my environments and what that suggests. 1. git clone --mirror is apparently new in git version 1.6 <http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/8/2/2793244> My somewhat mouldy Ubuntu node is on git 1.5.4, which doesn't include this. There's a workaround, as --mirror is just "syntactic sugar" $ git clone --mirror $URL may be replaced by $ git clone --bare $URL $ (cd $(basename $URL) && git remote add --mirror origin $URL) I see options: a) Require git 1.6 or so (latest stable is 1.7.1.1) b) Offer the alternative mirror approach 2. SCM.pl seems to expect the repository directory to be called "pgsql" (around line #373) I wound up hacking up the code to head to a specific directory, which isn't a terribly good hack, but apparently works for now. - chdir 'pgsql'; + chdir '/opt/build-farm/pgsql.git'; It feels as though something's not quite right about how the nearby Git repository is referenced. 3. Some problems checking status. i) Status Line: 491 bad ts parameter - [timestamp omitted] is in the future I know my clock's reasonable - ntp is reporting I'm within 0.25s of some stratum 2 nodes. Is it possible that the buildfarm server is ill-synced? ii) Status Line: 460 script version too low I just pulled a buildfarm build last week, so I'm not sure what this would relate to. That's where I've gotten thus far. Node caracara isn't reporting in just now because of this testing. I hope other people ought to be doing similar tryouts so that the revision effort to shift to Git doesn't wait to *start* until the development repo shifts. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="gmail.com" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #77. "If I have a fit of temporary insanity and decide to give the hero the chance to reject a job as my trusted lieutentant, I will retain enough sanity to wait until my current trusted lieutenant is out of earshot before making the offer." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
