Re: coreutils CI

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 5/9/23 20:57, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > I noticed the issue because the following "very-expensive" tests failed
> > (which succeeded with coreutils-9.3):
> >
> >     FAIL: tests/rm/ext3-perf
> >     FAIL: tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM
>
> Did you notice these failures by chance, or do you run coreutils continuous
> integration on a fixed schedule?

I regularly run the 'check-very-expensive' tests on my local clone.

> More generally, for which systems are coreutils continuous integrations being
> run regularly? For which systems would it be useful to have it?
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ references
> https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master but it seems that this
> CI stopped working in 2021.

I know the Hydra tests have stopped working, but some (small) attempts to get
support to get it working again failed.

@Padraig: you're at least doing some pre-release tests on several platforms,
but that's no real CI, is it?

Have a nice day,
Berny