From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 03:35:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A6F1065672; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-150-251.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C2514F4AA; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F2CA772.4060902@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:35:14 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120201 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201202022037.q12Kb66S041860@freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca> <4F2B278A.3080502@m5p.com> <201202030834.54072.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201202030834.54072.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , George Mitchell , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival Subject: Re: [releng_8_2 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:35:16 -0000 On 02/03/2012 05:34, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:17:14 pm George Mitchell wrote: >> On 02/02/12 15:37, FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: >>> [... one of three errors it's been reporting repeatedly for days ...] >> Talk about a lack of focus! Apparently two or three people have all >> recently checked in code without first verifying that it compiled (let >> alone ran), or else possibly did not completely commit their changes, >> and then absconded to a place where they fail to receive these emails >> about the problems. Can someone please either diagnose these errors or >> else revert the deficient commits? -- George Mitchell > > No, it is more that the tinderbox for 8 wasn't actually checking these > kernels before (they have been broken since 8.1 and 8.2 were released) and > they are on less-used platforms. Shouldn't whoever asked for that to be enabled take responsibility for cleaning them up then? > I do agree it needs to be cleaned up one way > or another. Given the reticence to commit changes to release branches, They're already broken. It's hard to see how fixing the problems could make things worse. :) Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/