Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jacob Champion
Subject Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?
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Msg-id CAOYmi+m5bSgVDROB1KEL3MRaCsdVwA5YvU6CvqYR2B9QH9H90Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I don't think there's a hard and fast rule, but I do think that it's a
> reasonably important goal to make sure that the OS/distro actually can build
> packages - and as part of that test those packages - reasonably well. So
> requiring wildly different things than what is available on $platform to run
> the tests reliably is bad.

I agree with that in general, but if a buildfarm operator reports
running into a already-fixed IPC::Run bug on an older distribution,
presumably we're going to tell them to install a newer IPC::Run,
right?

--Jacob



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