some news about buildfarm

[Matthieu Patou]

Hello,

Today we have a couple of more hosts in the build farm that are able to 
build and install samba4 : Sernet-True64, hape (HPUX11.0), samba-amd64 
(openbsd 4.8) and samba-i386 (openbsd 4.7) it didn't mean that they are 
free from test error but at least configure/make/make install works.

That's not that bad and I guess it's a very reasonable goal to say that 
all the servers in the build farm should build s3 master tree and s4 
master tree, there might be exceptions but not too much of them.

We are quite close to this point and already I'd like that for hosts 
that now builds who ever broke the build (or the install) provide a fix 
in a timely manner. Is there any objection ?

After when it comes to test, I think that it's acceptable to have broken 
tests related to AD DC stuff on host that won't be AD DC (ie. irix, 
tru64, old version of HPUX), but at least the test must fail every time, 
because flaky tests are they generate false positive in build error 
messages.

On other hosts we must tend to 0 failed tests, that's also something 
I've been working on last months and starts to give some results thanks 
to this we identified a couple of flacky tests related to vampire_dc 
environment (fsmo transfert, ...), I'm thinking to have a list of known 
flaky tests so that persons who fails on a flaky test didn't receive an 
email.

So far the quite reliable hosts for s4 builds are:

sn-devel-104
freebsd
core-01
magni
opi
SerNet-sles8
svart

It means that if you receive an email about this hosts then there is 
high chance that you broke something !


For those interested on fixing test errors on host that almost pass make 
test (that is to say ~ 10 errors) here is the list of what fails (apart 
from the vampire_dc related tests), I would be happy to have help from 
anybody to fix them (the first step is in lot of case to have a clearer 
vision of what has failed instead of an "unknown error")

buildsamba02
samba4.net.domopen(dc)

burns
samba4.net.domopen(dc)
samba4.base.maximum_allowed(dc)
samba4.raw.acls(dc)
samba4.blackbox.wbinfo(dc:local)
samba4.raw.mux(dc)

opensolaris
samba4.local.time
samba4.blackbox.kinit(dc:local) all kind of DC
samba4.blackbox.gentest(dc)
samba4.ldap.secdesc.python(dc) all kind of DC

builder72
samba4.ntvfs.cifs.base.delete(dc)
samba4.rpc.lsa.secrets on ncacn_ip_tcp with Kerberos - use target 
principal(fl2000dc)
samba4.raw.open(dc)
samba4.nbt.winsreplication(dc)


Matthieu.

-- 
Matthieu Patou
Samba Team        http://samba.org
Private repo      http://git.samba.org/?p=mat/samba.git;a=summary