Re: many animals are running old clients

On 08/18/2018 06:48 AM, Mikael Kjellström wrote:
>
> On 2018-08-17 23:27, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> The majority of buildfarm animals are not on the latest client code
>> release. Version 8 was released more than 3 months ago. There are 26
>> animals on release 7 and 43 on even older releases, in one case on a
>> release going back 4 years. See below for the lists of delinquents.
>
> I've updated all my animals below to version 8.
>
>
>>   conchuela    | mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com | 007000
>>   grison       | mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com | 007000
>>   loach        | mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com | 007000
>>   sidewinder   | mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com | 007000
>>   curculio      | mikael(dot)kjellstrom(at)gmail(dot)com | 004018

Thanks.

>
> It might be worth to send out a email directly to the animal owners
> that a new version is out.  It's easy to miss if you don't follow the
> mailing lists.

Mail goes to the buildfarm-members list. That should be sufficiently
specific. Having to email owners individually would be unpleasant.

>
> Just a suggestion.
>
> And regarding:
>
> "I do my best to keep things backwards compatible, so that usually an
> upgrade is simply a matter of unpacking the release and you're done. I
> don't think asking people to do that once every few months is terribly
> onerous. It's a five minute job."
>
> Every time I upgrade I need to go through all the .pl-files and change
> the path to where perl is located as different os/distros has perl at
> different paths and also it's not even consistent within the shipped
> files.
>
> For example:
>
> % head -n 1 *.pl
> ==> run_branches.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ==> run_build.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ==> run_web_txn.pl <==
> #!/c/perl/bin/perl
>
> ==> setnotes.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ==> update_personality.pl <==
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> I also go through the config-file line by line to see if anything is
> changed or added.
>
> It's not a big deal though.  Keep up the good work!
>
> /Mikael

run_web_txn.pl is only ever used on Windows/msys, that's why its path is
different. If you're not using one of those systems you can safely
ignore it.

Would it help if I added a script to set the perl locations?
Alternatively, we could switch to using /usr/bin/env, but I'm not sure
how universal it is. And if you want to use a non-distro perl it
possibly won't help anyway.

cheers

andrew

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