Re: buildbot

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 07/08/2009 05:45 PM, Daniel Gollub wrote:
> A local instance of buildbot with one master and one slave is already running
> for qemu-kvm.git (clone). Preparing now the final buildmaster host ...
>
> Unfortunately there seems to be no Git-"poller" in buildbot, like for SVN. So
> there is need to install a Git post-receive hook on the repositories to
> trigger the buildbot-master:
> http://buildbot.net/trac/browser/contrib/git_buildbot.py
>
> I hope this ok. Otherwise we would need to setup mirror, which contains this
> hook.
>    

I can easily add the hook.

> Some further questions to the build test:
>
> - incremental/quick or full/"safe" build tests?
>    (e.g. "make clean" before actual configuration/build?)
>    

I think clean builds + ccache give a good safety/performance tradeoff.  
qemu is pretty safe wrt incremental builds anyway.

> - any non-default compiler flags?
>    

Not from me, but if someone has a favorite flag, we can test it.

> - which combination of configuration should get tested?
>    * w/o --disable-kvm
>    * ...
>    

Let's hear the list...

> - which branches should get build-tested for qemu-kvm.git? just master in the
>    beginning?
>    

master, next, stable-0.10

I also want more repositories: qemu.git, kvm.git, and kvm-kmod.git.  The 
latter will be tricky since it references another repository, but we'll 
work it out.

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