Re: "ago" times on buildfarm status page

On 8/27/19 4:33 AM, Tom Turelinckx wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I think this is the problem:
>>
>>  'scmrepo' => '/home/pgbf/pgmirror.git',
>>
>> Probably this isn't updated often enough. It probably has little to do with the clock settings.
>>
>> This is the kind of old-fashioned way of doing things. These days "git_keep_mirror => 1" along with the community
repoas the base would avoid these problems.
 
> We've discussed this before (see below).
>
>
>  Hm. So the issue really is that the build timestamp that the buildfarm
>  client is reporting tells when it pulled from the local repo, not when
>  that repo was last updated from the community server. Not sure if there's
>  any simple way to improve that ... Andrew, any thoughts?



Maybe we need an option to use the git commit time. instead of the
snapshot time.


cheers


andrew


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