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.
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