Re: Buildfarm vs. Linux Distro classification

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>
>> well I think Andrew is more scared of having multiple boxes on the
>> buildfarm all stating to be "Debian testing" or "Debian unstable" but
>> without much information on how regulary those boxes are actually synced
>> to those moving/changing branches and causing discussions on "why is it
>> suddenly failung on that box but not on the other".
>
> It might make sense to attach the version information (in this case,
> gcc, glibc, kernel versions) to each particular test run, rather than to
> each particular farm member.

that is a good idea generally but that information might not be
available in a portable way on all platforms (and even than we might
want to have version information on things/libs like readline,zlib,ldap,
too) ...

Stefan