[cip-dev] cip-dev progress report weeks 20 - 29

[robert.marshall@codethink.co.uk (Robert Marshall)]

Zoran

Thanks for this.

Zoran S <zoran.stojsavljevic.de@gmail.com> writes:

>> The master of B at D now installs 2018.4 rather the latest from
>>  debian-backports making the tool more resilient to upstream changes
>>  and allowing us to evaluate an upstream change before it goes live.
>
> I absolutely agree with this approach, only I would use the following
> Lava release:
>
> ii  lava-dispatcher
> 2018.5.post1-1+stretch      amd64                   Linaro Automated
> Validation Architecture dispatcher
> ii  lava-server
> 2018.5.post1-1+stretch      all                         Linaro
> Automated Validation Architecture server
>
> Thus making this line in the integration scripts as following:
>
> sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install
> lava=2018.5.post1-1+stretch -t stretch-backports
>
> I have tested this release, and with exclusion of minor bugs it works
> very fine (these bugs are also present in 2018.4).

We've stuck with 2018-4 as it has worked but will evaluate newer
versions at appropriate times rather than finding the version has
changed on a fresh provision and potentially having to fix things quickly!

>
> Do NOT use Lava 2018.7 (I guess, it is a mess)!
>
Thanks for this information - I'll see when we get to it!

Robert


> Thank you,
> Zoran
> _______
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Robert Marshall
> <robert.marshall@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi! Here's a report on the Codethink CIP testing development over the
>> past few weeks.
>>
>> CIP kernel testing
>>
>> - The master of B at D now installs 2018.4 rather the latest from
>>   debian-backports making the tool more resilient to upstream changes
>>   and allowing us to evaluate an upstream change before it goes live.
>>
>> - Also linked to the above the beaglebone black health check now uses an
>>   inline test; this both breaks the reliance upon an upstream test repos
>>   structure and making testing less dependent upon needing an internet connection.
>>
>> - Renesas board - this hardware continued to not give consistent results in B at D
>>   tests so for the moment development has been suspended.
>>
>> - Development has started on using docker containers for B at D - the
>>   kernelci one is up and kernel builds have successfully been uploaded
>>   to it, there is an outstanding issue with retrieving those builds from
>>   the container. Work is also being carried out on the lava docker container.
>>
>> Robert
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