Re: "CVS-Unknown" buildfarm failures?

Tom Lane wrote:
> meerkat and snake both have persistent "CVS-Unknown" failures in some
> but not all branches.  I can't see any evidence of an actual failure
> in their logs though.  What I do see is "?" entries about files that
> shouldn't be there --- for instance, meerkat apparently needs a "make
> distclean".  If that's what's causing the failure report, could we
> get the buildfarm to show a more useful status message?  I'd always
> assumed that "CVS-Unknown" suggested a transient problem such as
> connection loss, and there wasn't any need for human intervention.
> 
> A more radical answer is to have the script go ahead and delete the
> offending files itself, but I can see where that might not have good
> fail-soft behavior ...

I have manually ran a dist-clean on meerkat for 8_0 and 8_1 and am 
rerunning the builds now.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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