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