Improvements for the conddb command tool

[ggovi]

In this PR:

• consolidate synchronization policies
• various improvements on logging information

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @ggovi for CMSSW_9_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

CondCore/Utilities

@ggovi, @cmsbuild, @davidlange6 can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ghellwig, @apfeiffer1 this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6, @smuzaffar you are the release manager for this.

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[ggovi]

please test

[cmsbuild]

The tests are being triggered in jenkins.
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-any-integration/19444/console Started: 2017/04/27 18:29

[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: 9d287f2
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-18497/19444/summary.html

[cmsbuild]

Comparison job queued.

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-18497/19444/summary.html

There are some workflows for which there are errors in the baseline:
1306.0 step 1
The results for the comparisons for these workflows could be incomplete
This means most likely that the IB is having errors in the relvals.The error does NOT come from this pull request

Comparison Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 1735705
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 29385
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 1706157
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 163
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• Checked 90 log files, 14 edm output root files, 22 DQM output files

[ggovi]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_9_0_X IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request requires discussion in the ORP meeting before it's merged. @davidlange6, @smuzaffar

[davidlange6]

+1