Re: 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I suppose I could provide a switch to turn it off ... in one recent case
> the repo was genuinely not clean, though, so I am not terribly keen on
> that approach - but I am open to persuasion.

No, I agree it's a good check. Just wondering if we can reduce the
number of false positives. The recent meerkat failures, for instance,
were *not* false positives.

Looking at the snake failures of this type on HEAD, I do see that the
complaints are all about subdirectories that should have been pruned,
which makes Andrew's theory seem plausible. Maybe we should file this
behavior as a cvs bug.

Sudden thought: is there any particularly good reason to use the cvs
update -P switch in buildfarm repositories? If we simply eliminated
the create/prune thrashing for these directories, it'd fix the problem,
if Andrew's idea is correct. Probably save a few cycles too. And since
people are really not supposed to be using these checkouts for anything
else, they don't need to be pretty.

regards, tom lane