[Cdash] cdash backup directory not being cleaned up

Clinton Stimpson clinton at elemtech.com
Mon Mar 30 16:00:39 UTC 2015


On Monday, March 30, 2015 10:50:29 AM Zack Galbreath wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:10 AM, <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:
> > No, I'm not.  I get this message at the top every day.
> > "No update data as of Thursday, March 26 2015 - 20:00 MDT"
> > even while there were changes.
> > 
> > I had assumed that was because I didn't enter the repository information
> > in the project settings.
> 
> Do you perform ctest_update as part of your build?  If not, that could be
> the problem.  If some external mechanism is updating your source code, you
> can still do something like this:
> 
> set(CTEST_UPDATE_VERSION_ONLY 1)
> 
> ctest_update()
> 
> This tells CDash what commit you're testing without actually attempting a
> pull/checkout/etc.

Yes, each client does a ctest_update() as part of their build.

I did just fix cdash and the clients so they have the same start time.  One was 
19:00 MST and the other 20:00 MDT.

But these kinds of issues shouldn't have an effect on whether old files are 
cleaned, should they?

Clint



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