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Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Trunk testing (general) and MSVC11
From: KTC (ktc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-27 17:57:13


On 27/08/2012 22:19, Rene Rivera wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Christoph Macheiner
>
>> Of course, this might require more changes other than to the RmTemps rule
>> alone (and I have no idea how to achieve this). Anybody know how to do this?
>
> All the changes should happen to the testing rules. In particular how
> it marks temporaries. It's not particularly hard to mark things as
> temporary. But it is hard to make sure one has a sufficient trail from
> the sources to the test result artefacts. Because if one doesn't all
> you will end up doing is running extra test when the sources don't
> really change. Of course that's if you are running incremental
> testing. If you are doing full fresh testing runs it doesn't really
> matter. And if that's the case you might as well implement the
> cleaning out of disk space by adding a post tesitng command that
> delete the "bin*" directory after uploading the results.
>

That doesn't help with needing the 50GB of space in the first place if
deletion only occur after uploading of results. It has the same effect
as the pre-testing deletion that happens with a full run.

KTC


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