Re: Going for 'all green' buildfarm results

Larry Rosenman said:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I've been making another pass over getting rid of buildfarm failures.
>> The remaining ones I see at the moment are:
>>
>> firefly HEAD: intermittent failures in the stats test.  We seem to
>> have fixed every other platform back in January, but not this one.
>>
>>
>> firefly 7.4: dblink test fails, with what looks like an rpath problem.
>> Another one that we fixed awhile ago, and the fix worked on every
>> platform but this one.
>>
>> firefly 7.3: trivial regression diffs; we could install variant
>> comparison files if anyone cared.
>>
>>
>> Firefly is obviously the outlier here.  I dunno if anyone cares
>> enough about SCO to spend time investigating it (I don't).  Most of
>> the others just need a little bit of attention from the machine
>> owner.
>
> If I generate fixes for firefly (I'm the owner), would they have a
> prayer  Of being applied?
>

Sure, although I wouldn't bother with 7.3 - just take 7.3 out of firefly's
build schedule. That's not carte blanche on fixes, of course - we'd have to
see them.

cheers

andrew