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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 10:18:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: please update description of grison
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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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On 07.03.25 10:02, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On 2025-Mar-07, Mikael Kjellström wrote:
> 
>> For example look at:
>>
>> morepork = OpenBSD OpenBSD 6.9 clang clang 10.0.1 x64
>>
>> It should say:
>>
>> morepork = OpenBSD 6.9 clang 10.0.1 x64
>>
>> i used update_personality.pl to change that once (several years ago) and
>> that is how it displays after sending in:
>>
>> $ update_personality.pl --os-version="OpenBSD 6.9" --compiler-version="clang
>> 10.0.1 x64"
> 
> You have to give only the version *number*, not the operating
> system/compiler names.
> 
> The fact that the compiler itself cannot be changed (say from gcc to
> clang, which you appear to be trying to do for sidewinder) appears to be
> on purpose.  I suppose you should submit a new request and abandon the
> old animal name, if you wanted to make such a conversion.  (I don't
> necessarily agree with this view of things, but it's how it is at
> present.)

yeah, I think this whole area could do with some rethinking - it is 
_very_ common for people upgrading operating systems or even running 
operating systems that are doing a continous upgrade thing.

Requiring those to re-register for no real purpose seems to be the wrong 
way - ideally I would expect the buildfarm itself to update the OS and 
compiler version -  what we have now is basically always outdated and wrong.


Stefan