From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing Release 6 of PostgreSQL Buildfarm client
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: buildfarm-members@postgresql.org
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 13:37:18 -0500
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On 01/04/2018 01:27 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 01/04/2018 12:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>> which means I get mail every time the cron script runs.  Needless
>>> to say, that will not do.  Previously, mail only showed up when
>>> there was a git checkout failure.  How do I get back to the
>>> old behavior?
>> Diff'ing the v5 and v6 releases soon provided the answer: for some
>> reason v6 is forcing the verbose switch on.  I hope that was
>> unintentional?  Anyway, I'm happy again after applying this patch:
>>
>> --- PGBuild/Options.pm~ 2018-01-04 08:38:29.000000000 -0500
>> +++ PGBuild/Options.pm  2018-01-04 12:40:14.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -78,8 +78,6 @@
>>      GetOptions(%standard_options, @_)
>>        || die "bad command line";
>>  
>> -    # override GetOptions default for :i
>> -    $verbose = 1 if (defined($verbose) && $verbose==0);
>>      $verbose ||= 0; # stop complaints about undefined var in numeric comparison
>>  }
>>  
>>
>> 			
>
>
>
> What is weird is that the only change has been to move this from
> run_build.pl into PGBuild::Options::fetch_options. Those two lines have
> been in run_build.pl for many years:
>
> 2cdd46ae    (Andrew Dunstan 2004-09-24 20:22:32 +0000   111)$verbose=1
> if (defined($verbose) && $verbose==0);
> 4307d647    (Andrew Dunstan 2005-12-23 16:55:53 +0000   112)$verbose ||=
> 0; # stop complaints about undefined var in numeric comparison
>
> and the lines you showed come from run_build.pl.
>
> The rationale for the move was to make the flag sanely available to
> other programs, specifically run_branches.pl.
>
> So it's very odd. I'll do some experimenting.
>

Hah! I have it. How annoying. It's run_branches passing the adjusted
value through to run_build. Will fix.

cheers

andrew

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