Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTest] standalone-reset: actually honour '-f' option

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On ven, 2014-02-14 at 18:41 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dario Faggioli writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTest] standalone-reset: actually 
> honour '-f' option"):
> > On mer, 2014-01-29 at 14:32 +0000, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > > standalone-reset's usage says:
> > >     
> > >   usage: ./standalone-reset [<options>] [<branch> [<xenbranch> 
> > > [<buildflight>]]]
> > >    branch and xenbranch default, separately, to xen-unstable
> > >   options:
> > >    -f<flight>     generate flight "flight", default is "standalone"
> > >     
> > > but then there is no place where '-f' is processed, and hence
> > > no real way to pass a specific flight name to make-flight.
> > >     
> > > Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Right.  I don't use standalone mode much, so sorry about that.
>
I know... That's fine. :-)

> This patch leads me to an observation: I looked at the code in
> standalone-reset and it appears to me that there is not currently
> anything which sets "$flight".
> 
Indeed, that's what this does.

> So the "DELETE" statements used if there's an existing db won't have
> any effect.  This doesn't cause any strange effects because
> Osstest/JobDB/Standalone.pm deletes them too.
> 
> I think it would be best to delete that part of standalone-reset.  Do
> you agree ?
> 
Well, if it's either never invoked (right now, without this patch) or
duplicate (with this patch), I certainly think it can be removed.

I'll send a patch to that effect.

> In the meantime I have added your patch to my queue branch.
> 
Ok, thanks.

Regards,
Dario

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