RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 23:59 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> Not sure what advantage you see here.  As to the first argument: if the
> Koji build fails in a way that is reproducible on your own machine, that
> says that you didn't bother to do a trial build before submitting to
> Koji; which is surely not a habit that we should condone or encourage.

Right, I'm talking about the case where it doesn't fail on one's own
machine, due to build environment differences.

> As to the second: the only way that separate build and test steps save
> any resources is if a significant percentage of build jobs don't get
> tested, which again is not something that I think we should encourage or
> optimize for.  

I think it is OK if some rawhide builds don't get tested.  What we
should ensure is that builds that we're going to ship in a
alpha/beta/real release are tested.  Although really this discussion is
kind of silly until we have some sort of testing framework.