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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: stable trees (was: [xen-4.2-testing test] 58584:
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:07:29 +0100
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To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
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On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 10:51 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 18.06.15 at 16:22, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 12:37 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 17.06.15 at 12:26, <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >> > Jan Beulich writes ("stable trees (was: [xen-4.2-testing test] 58584: 
> >> > regressions)"):
> >> >> Which leaves several options:
> >> >> - the problem was always there, but hidden by some factor in the
> >> >>   old osstest instance,
> >> > 
> >> > I think this is most likely.  The old system had much older hosts.
> >> > 
> >> > I think this is a race that we now happen to lose most of the time.
> >> 
> >> For verification purposes, would it be possible to set up a couple of
> >> flights on the old instance for one of the stable trees?
> > 
> > I can try and run something adhoc on the old system if you can let me
> > know exactly which jobs (test-*-*-*) and branches you are interested in.
> 
> Any or all of test-amd64-*-xl-qemuu-win* (not sure whether you
> can specify wildcards), and I guess stable-4.5 (or staging-4.5)
> would be the most natural branch choice.

I think the tools can do wildcards, yes.

I've kicked off a full adhoc xen-4.5-testing flight so I have a local
template to copy the jobs from for some repeated runs with just the
problem flights (it's just easier to do that than to invent a cut-down
flight from scratch...).

> 
> Thanks, Jan
>