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Re: splitted buildbot logs

From: 'Daniel Shahaf' <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:29:38 +0300

Bert Huijben wrote on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 00:31:42 +0200:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> > Sent: woensdag 14 juli 2010 23:58
> > To: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Cc: Daniel Shahaf
> > Subject: Re: splitted buildbot logs
> >
> > Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 15:28:57 +0100:
> > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > > > Currently, the buildbot "testlog" outputs are quite large (12MB).
> > > >
> > > > When a test fails, it could be more convenient for the developer
> > > > inspecting the buildbot log if the output was in smaller files (so we
> > > > don't have to grep for the /^FAIL/ inside a 12MB file *in the
> > > > browser*).
> > > >
> > > > Thus: http://pastebin.ca/1900435
> > > >
> > > > What do you think about doing something like this in our buildbot
> > > > instance?
>
> Shouldn't this be handled by our python test runner instead?
>
> If that would just create an extra logfile next to the normal logfile with
> only the failing test as output, we would only have to reconfigure the
> master config to upload two instead of one file. Additional benefits are
> that it would help in local testing and that it would also work on
> non-posix platforms.
>

You persuaded me :) r964349.

Now just need to make buildbot upload the fails.log file too.

> (Should we add the XFail output to the failure log?)
>

Currently it does just FAIL and XPASS, rationale being that XFail is not an
exceptional condition (we have some tests XFail for years).

> Bert
>
> > >
> > > Would this need to be deployed to each buildslave, or would it live on
> > > the server?
> > >
> >
> > The former, per gmcdonald:
> >
> > 21:50 < gmcdonald> ok, so have the script run on the slave (becuase thats
> > where the logs are) then create an extra step on
> > the master to upload the results
> > 21:52 < gmcdonald> (the subversion.conf can add steps to run the script on
> > the slave (same as the cleanup step) then upload
> > the results to master)
> > 21:54 < gmcdonald> see also:
> > http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.8.1/full.html#BuildStep-LogFiles
> > 21:54 < gmcdonald> Using LogFiles in custom BuildSteps
> > 21:54 < gmcdonald> but whatever, you choose
>
Received on 2010-07-15 11:31:13 CEST

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