Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] .travis.yml: migrate to container builds

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

David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:45:09AM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This moves the Travis tests from their old legacy VM
>> infrastructure (which only seems to run 5-6 jobs at once) to their new
>> container based approach.
>>
>> The principle difference is there is no sudo in the containers so all
>> packages are installed using the apt add-on. This means one of the build
>> combinations can be dropped as it was only for checking the build with
>> additional packages.
>>
>> I've disabled the user-space tracing build until the dependant packages
>> go through the Travis package white-listing process.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
> Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> Is it safe to just drop that build combination, or should we instead
> be doing something else to test the build _without_ those extra
> packages?

Hmm, currently there doesn't seem to be a way to do this with the Travis
infrastructure as the packages are no longer part of a matrix.

>
>
> [snip]
>> @@ -86,10 +103,10 @@ matrix:
>>      - env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>>             EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-trace-backends=ftrace"
>>        compiler: gcc
>> -    - env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>> -          EXTRA_PKGS="liblttng-ust-dev liburcu-dev"
>> -          EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-trace-backends=ust"
>> -      compiler: gcc
>> +    # UST backend disabled until liblttng-ust-dev pkg white-listed
>> +    #- env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>> +    #       EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-trace-backends=ust"
>> +    #  compiler: gcc
>
> This comment is a bit confusing to me, since the apt addon package
> list already seems to include liblttng-ust-dev.

It's in the list but still awaiting whitelisting by Travis:

https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist/issues/2258

>
>>      - env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>>             EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-modules"
>>        compiler: gcc


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Alex Bennée