Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Updating IPC::Run in CI?
Date: 2025-09-18 19:24:46
Message-ID: CAOYmi+m5bSgVDROB1KEL3MRaCsdVwA5YvU6CvqYR2B9QH9H90Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)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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