buildfarm happenings

If you haven't visited the buildfarm recently you might have missed a
few developments:

. we are now reporting flags used on builds on the main dashboard page -
I am working on making that look nicer by using icons - see
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status4.pl for prgress.

. the latest release provides for uploading all the log files, not just
the log from the error stage. The details page for each build provides a
link to each log file if they are present. Many buildfarm members are
already running prerelease version of this facility.

. Eric Astor at EnterpriseDB is using a modified client on his member
"finch" to run the Coverity static source code analysis tool, and the
results are uploaded along with the rest of the log files - see for
example
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=finch&dt=2005-08-03%2020:12:42

All this and more is supported by the latest release, fresh today, of
the client code, available on pgfoundry, the notes for which state:

Feature: upload a zipped tar of all the logs, regardless of success status
Feature: --from-source option lets you test changes in a locally
modified repo copy
Feature: Cygwin cygrunserv sanity check
Feature: Add integrity checking for CVS conflicts and locally modified
files.
Fixes: multiroot and keeperror modes fixed.

--from-source is not yet documented, but enables you to use the
buildfarm client as a testing tool for changes made in a repo copy.

cheers

andrew