Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] OSSTEST: introduce a raisin build test

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

El 04/08/15 a les 15.41, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 14:18 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 12:18 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>>>> It hasn't actually failed though, is that normal?
>>>>  
>>>> It is an "optional" dependency, without it passthrough is disabled in
>>>> qemu-traditional. Passing -n tell raisin to "shut up, do nothing and
>>>> continue", so at the end the build still succeed.
>>>
>>> What other sorts of things are optional?
>>
>> There isn't really a distinction between mandatory dependencies and
>> optional dependencies in raisin. This is what raisin is currently
>> complaining about:
>>
>> bridge-utils pciutils-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev
>>
>> bridge-utils is actually a run time dependency for Xen, while
>> libnl-3-dev and libnl-route-3-dev are build time dependencies for
>> libvirt. I think they are needed for vlan support. Should I add them
>> too?
> 
> I think so, I have a feeling Remus might use them too? cf "[PATCH] osstest:
> install libnl3 packages" from Roger.

Yes, Remus needs libnl-3-dev and libnl-route-3-dev. They are available
since Wheezy, but only the ones on Squeeze are new enough for the Remus
code. Feel free to pick that patch, it only needs a comment in the
description to mention that support for anything older than Wheezy is
dropped.

Roger.