Re: Announcing Release 15 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client

On 2022-12-31 Sa 21:11, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2022-12-31 Sa 20:55, Noah Misch wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 10:02:32AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> * check if a branch is up to date before trying to run it
>>> This only applies if the |branches_to_build| setting is a keyword
>>> rather than a list of branches. It reduces the number of useless
>>> calls to |git pull| to almost zero.
>> This new reliance on buildfarm.postgresql.org/branches_of_interest.json is
>> trouble for non-SSL buildfarm animals.
>> http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/branches_of_interest.txt has an exemption to
>> allow serving over plain http, but the json URL just redirects the client to
>> https. Can the json file get the same exemption-from-redirect that the txt
>> file has?
>
> I didn't realize there were animals left other than mine which had this
> issue. I asked the admins some weeks ago to fix this (I don't have
> privilege to do so), but have not had a response yet. The temporary
> workaround is to use a list of named branches, e.g. instead of 'ALL' use
> [qw(REL_11_STABLE REL_12_STABLE REL_13_STABLE REL_14_STABLE
> REL_15_STABLE HEAD)]
>
>

Looks like this is fixed now (Thanks Magnus!), the workaround should no
longer be necessary.

cheers

andrew

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