tests on kyua1.nyi.freebsd.org against HEAD failing

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:35:34AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Peel, Casey <casey.peel at isilon.com> wrote:
>> > Greetings all.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Benno pointed out that the tests against the HEAD branch on http://kyua1.nyi.freebsd.org appear to be misconfigured - is this a known issue?

...

>> Hello Mr. Peel :)!
>>
>> Yes, that's definitely a bug because gjb changed how variables are
>> defined in release.sh (mind the trailing slash!):
>>
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/release.conf.sample?r1=259079&r2=262499
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/release/release.sh?r1=259955&r2=262499
>>
>> Too bad the extra slash wasn't kept in release.sh -- it would have
>> avoided this breakage (I'm sure Julio isn't the only one who will have
>> to update their release.conf).
>>
>> Julio,
>>
>> Looks like the NYI server needs to be updated and an extra slash needs
>> to be added to the .conf file.
>>
>
> Yes, it was an unfortunate change, but sadly was the "best" way I could
> find to change things around to be able to replace VCSCMD.
>
> Sorry about the breakage it caused.  Changes like that will not be
> a regular occurrence.

    Hmm... shouldn't this be documented in UPDATING?
Thanks!
-Garrett