Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-12 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher Browne wrote: > >> It seems to me that there is some value in putting together a script >> that tries to identify some of the interesting bits of the toolchain. > > Yeah; but why not just a bunch of commands, some of which are expected > to

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Christopher Browne wrote: > It seems to me that there is some value in putting together a script > that tries to identify some of the interesting bits of the toolchain. Yeah; but why not just a bunch of commands, some of which are expected to work on any particular machine, and save the whole out

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Eisentraut): > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Lately there have been some buildfarm registrations for "Debian >> testing/unstable" or similarly described machines. I have kicked back >> against these, as the description seems to me to be far too open >> ended. > > Then agai

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > The buildfarm script already seems to record various info such as > "uname" output on-the-fly. If we could get it to record compiler > version ("gcc -v" is easy, but equivalent incantations for vendor > compilers might be harder to find) and a few other facts on-the-fly, > I thin

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that the lack of a fixed version designation is unsatisfactory. > I'm not sure whether that is actually necessary, though. If PostgreSQL > doesn't work on some machine, then that's a problem anyway. The buildfarm script already seems to re

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
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/changi

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
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 discus

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Lately there have been some buildfarm registrations for "Debian >> testing/unstable" or similarly described machines. I have kicked back >> against these, as the description seems to me to be far too open >> ended. > > Then again, it would be usef

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Lately there have been some buildfarm registrations for "Debian > testing/unstable" or similarly described machines. I have kicked back > against these, as the description seems to me to be far too open > ended. Then again, it would be useful to actually test on Debian tes

Re: [HACKERS] Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Lately there have been some buildfarm registrations for "Debian testing/unstable" or similarly described machines. I have kicked back against these, as the description seems to me to be far too open ended. Likewise, I also have difficulty with Gentoo because a version th