From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:10:52 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Issue with the autobuilders: removing 1379 builds from the history? Message-ID: <20130528091052.16da9159@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, While trying to reproduce the flex recent issue that triggered in the autobuilders, I found out that I couldn't reproduce it. After investigating, I discovered that the Git commit id being reported by my autobuilder machine was incorrect. This is due to a change I made in the autobuilder on May, 13th, where I'm now using a separate Git tree for each build instead of a common one, but the script was still taking the Git commit id of some other Buildroot tree. So the build was actually taking place with the latest Buildroot version, but reported to use Git commit id 9947ee9fbb94af800b8b054262734e0f81f32250. This means that when you try to reproduce the build, if you take the Git commit id given by the autobuilder website, then you won't be testing with the Git commit id with which the build was made, which is quite annoying. This is what happened to me when trying to reproduce the flex problem: I have a script that, given a build SHA1, downloads the configuration and Git commit ID, and restarts the build with the exact same commit and the exact same configuration. But for those builds who reported an invalid Git commit ID... it cannot work, and therefore I wasn't reproducing the flex problem. Therefore, I am considering removing those completely bogus build results from the history. We are talking about removing 1379 build results, i.e all builds done my autobuilder between May, 14th and today. Even though it is quite annoying to lose so many results, I believe this is the best action we can take now. What do you think? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com