Re: [ima-evm-utils: PATCH 5/5] ima-evm-utils: travis: openssl gost engine

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 15:07 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 18:32 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > > - Or even better, Bionic (which is supported by Travis) should have
> > > >   gost-engine already in the libengine-gost-openssl1.1 package.
> > > >   In that case `.travis.yml` should have `dist: bionic`.
> > > >     https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/bionic/
> > > Yes, for the internal git repo I made this change.   The internal
> > > travis support for bionic is different than the external
> > > travis.   I'll post what I have as an RFC.
> > The internal travis support on ppc defaults to using Bionic, but the
> > way of specifying it is different.
> > +os: linux-ppc64le
> >  language: C
> >  addons:
> >   apt:
> 
> @Mimi: As I wrote, I'd suggest moving to docker based travis. I can do it once
> other issues are addressed, if this setup work for your internal travis support
> as well. See examples .travis.yml [1] [2], builds: [3] [4].
> 
> Advantages are more realistic builds for distro maintainers (different libc and
> libraries versions, you can test old and new distro releases, etc), but maybe
> that's not what you want/need.
> 
> Disadvantage is that sometimes docker releases have temporary packaging related
> issues (first build in [3]; failure in first build [4] is a bug in LTP, corner
> case, which would be otherwise undiscovered a long time).

Nice!  I definitely want to move to a docker based travis.   How should
we move forward?   Should there be a 1.3.1 release now with just the
few changes in the next branch and include the existing travis branch
with changes to address Vitaly's comments?

Mimi

> 
> [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/.travis.yml
> [2] https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/.travis.yml
> [3] https://travis-ci.org/github/iputils/iputils/builds/714445071
> [4] https://travis-ci.org/github/linux-test-project/ltp/builds/714400199