[Python-checkins] buildbot warnings in hppa Ubuntu dapper 2.5

Sun Mar 11 02:54:17 CET 2007

On 3/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Brett Cannon schrieb:
> > Another failure because a connection timed out. There was also a
> > failure because the connection was reset.
> >
> > Would it be worth it to have a function in test_support just for
> > network calls that suppresses both timed out connection exceptinos and
> > connection resets by chaining calls to
> > test.test_support.TransientResource() using contextlib.nested?
>> It would certainly be valuable to filter out false positives.
>> Newer buildbot versions apparently have support for filtering
> log files, but there are multiple obstacles to using them:
> - new versions of buildbot and twisted are needed, essentially
> making a switch only reasonable with the next Debian release
> (which should arrive soon)
> - the code to do the filtering and to compute build step results
> from that would have to be written
>> So I think it is more reasonable to put this filtering into regrtest.

I was thinking of putting into the actual tests like I did with
test_socket_ssl and its constant timeout issues.
-Brett