Re: [PATCH] gitlab: split deprecated job into build/check stages

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 02/10/2020 11.15, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> While the job is pretty fast for only a few targets we still want to
>> catch breakage of the build. By splitting the test step we can
>> allow_failures for that while still ensuring we don't miss the build
>> breaking.
>
> Is there already something broken?
>
> Otherwise, I'd rather simply remove the "allow_failure: true" tag
> instead ... these jobs otherwise tend to get ignored.

Yeah I got a recurring ppc64abi32-linux-user failure as I was testing
the PR.

>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  .gitlab-ci.yml | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
>> index 346f23acf7..a51c89554f 100644
>> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
>> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
>> @@ -270,9 +270,24 @@ build-deprecated:
>>    variables:
>>      IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
>>      CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-docs --disable-tools
>> -    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg
>> +    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: build-tcg
>>      TARGETS: ppc64abi32-linux-user tilegx-linux-user lm32-softmmu
>>        unicore32-softmmu
>> +  artifacts:
>> +    expire_in: 2 days
>> +    paths:
>> +      - build
>> +
>> +# We split the check-tcg step as test failures are expected but we still
>> +# want to catch the build breaking.
>> +check-deprecated:
>> +  <<: *native_test_job_definition
>> +  needs:
>> +    - job: build-deprecated
>> +      artifacts: true
>> +  variables:
>> +    IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
>> +    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg
>
> Anyway, that's better than before, so:
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>


-- 
Alex Bennée