buildfarm happenings

If you haven't visited the buildfarm recently you might have missed a 
few developments:

. we are now reporting flags used on builds on the main dashboard page - 
I am working on making that look nicer by using icons - see 
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status4.pl for prgress.

. the latest release provides for uploading all the log files, not just 
the log from the error stage. The details page for each build provides a 
link to each log file if they are present. Many buildfarm members are 
already running prerelease version of this facility.

. Eric Astor at EnterpriseDB is using a modified client on his member 
"finch" to run the Coverity static source code analysis tool, and the 
results are uploaded along with the rest of the log files - see for 
example 
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=finch&dt=2005-08-03%2020:12:42

All this and more is supported by the latest release, fresh today, of 
the client code, available on pgfoundry, the notes for which state:

Feature: upload a zipped tar of all the logs, regardless of success status
Feature: --from-source option lets you test changes in a locally 
modified repo copy
Feature: Cygwin cygrunserv sanity check
Feature: Add integrity checking for CVS conflicts and locally modified 
files.
Fixes: multiroot and keeperror modes fixed.


--from-source is not yet documented, but enables you to use the 
buildfarm client as a testing tool for changes made in a repo copy.


cheers

andrew