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Re: Some links to regression logs are broken [Was: Test suite failure of megadepth on s390x architecture]



Am Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 06:57:30AM -0300 schrieb Antonio Terceiro:
> > So I have hit that retention period yesterday by chance?  Do you know
> > a better way to re-trigger the creation of the logs than uploading a
> > new package?
> 
> Well you tried it exactly 60 days after the log was created. :)

Beaten by Murphy, I guess.
 
> You can click the retry (recycling icon) links, or go to the test
> history page for that package/suite/architecture, and try a newer log,
> or request a new test via the self-service interface.

Where can I finde those links to click?
 
> > No matter how long that period might be, IMHO the link in tracker
> > should not point to something saying
> > 
> >    Not Found: /data/autopkgtest/testing/s390x/r/r-bioc-megadepth/36684073/log.gz
> > 
> > I'd recommend to rather replace it by
> > 
> >    Sorry, to limit the space consumtion on our servers the log for
> >    $PACKAGE $VERSION was deleted on $DATE.
> >    
> > Extra points if you could add a method how to recreate this log.
> > 
> > Its probably a common thing to point to those logs in Github issues and
> > its not helpful if the page just looks like an error message.
> 
> Yes, you are right. I now have pending changes to debci to do just that.

Great!

Another idea:  Removing data according to time span is one thing.
Another thing is possibly to leave the log of "the latest version in
unstable" since this is linked from tracker no matter how old the log
might be.  I'm not sure whether I'm naive and whether this might be
possible / sensible.

Thanks again for all your work
     Andreas.

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