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Date:      Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:20:55 -0800
From:      "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com>
To:        "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES
Message-ID:  <b1fa29170712161620r47a6c8f8qd163bfcc5edc92d1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <86y7bujju1.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200712160736.lBG7aaJg063177@repoman.freebsd.org> <863au2l0za.fsf@ds4.des.no> <b1fa29170712161507i664e6da9lbd9d9bdb0092ab5a@mail.gmail.com> <86y7bujju1.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Dec 16, 2007 3:33 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
>
> "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Dec 16, 2007 2:38 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> > > Kip Macy <kmacy@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   disable cxgb build to prevent tinderbox whining
> > > How about you fix the code instead?
> > I can do that, but will you be happy with a broken tinderbox for
> > another 6 hours while you wait?
>
> It's not like I have a skull implant that beeps every time a build fails
> or something.  I dislike sweeping problems under the rug, however, and
> your commit message said nothing about the change being temporary.


I should have been more explicit in the commit message.

Tinderbox failures tend to lead to cascades - once the tinderbox is
broken other breakage is obscured. I think it best to not have it
complain about known problems so that new mistakes will be brought to
light.

 -Kip



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