[Qa-jenkins-dev] Bug#907497: Bug#907497: jenkins.debian.org: reproducible: reports outdated kernel variations

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:57 PM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org> wrote:
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_variations.html lists:
>
>   Linux 4.9.0-6-armmp #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) armv7l
>   Linux 4.9.0-6-armmp-lpae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) armv7l
>
> But no currently active systems are running these kernels. I suspect it
> is some cached kernel version leftover from before several armhf systems
> were removed

Indeed it is.
Nothing is currently cleaning up
/srv/reproducible-results/node-information/$hostname when a node is
removed, so it's storing also all removed and renamed nodes.

Of course I could just remove those files manually, but we would
forget to do it next time, so I'm leaving this open and the files in
place until we add some checks for non-known files (could just be
something that checks the list of file presents in that directory and
compares it with the list of hosts in jenkins_node_definitions.sh,
most likely to be run by reproducible_html_nodes_info.sh).

> I've also seen this happen when a system is down for a prolonged period
> and the last known kernel was an older kernel, although the case could
> be made that that's more-or-less correct.

maybe said checks should also consider jenkins-home/offline_nodes why not :)

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