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Date:      Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:35:14 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [releng_8_2 tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc
Message-ID:  <4F2CA772.4060902@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201202030834.54072.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201202022037.q12Kb66S041860@freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca> <4F2B278A.3080502@m5p.com> <201202030834.54072.jhb@freebsd.org>

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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

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