Re: Progress with automating testing of patches

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I wonder if it’s due to recent changes since I last looked, but I’m a
>> bit confused by the numbers in this example:
>>
>>   https://qa.guix.gnu.org/issue/58186
>>
>> The numbers before/after patches don’t match and the lint warnings (nice
>> addition!) appear to unrelated to the patch at hand.
>>
>> Any idea what’s going on?
>
> I've had an initial look. One important clue is that the basis of the
> comparison [1] differs between data.qa.guix.gnu.org and
> data.guix.gnu.org [2]. The package number differs for example.
>
> 1: 
> https://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/revision/e6777cfa5eb5e9c36eaf7810b42cac0fbcaa367c
> 2: https://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/e6777cfa5eb5e9c36eaf7810b42cac0fbcaa367c
>
> That shouldn't happen, one revision of Guix should have the same number
> of packages regardless of what server looked at it. This being wrong
> explains the bad data on qa.guix.gnu.org, since the comparison being
> done by data.qa.guix.gnu.org is based on bad data.

OK, I see.

BTW, why do we have both data.qa.guix and data.guix?  These are both
instances of the same service, right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.