Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?
Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2025-09-18T19:24:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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