Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml: Install 'file' for the Coverity job

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 10/17/25 06:31, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The coverity-scan upload job has started failing as of 30th
> September:
> 
> [ERROR] Cannot find '/usr/bin/file' command, and no 'file' command is found in the PATH
>          Coverity Capture uses this tool to identify the file type of executables.
>          Please ensure '/usr/bin/file' is available, or add the 'file' utility to your PATH.
> 
> This seems to have broken when we moved our containers from Fedora 40
> to 41 -- probably F40 indirectly pulled in 'file' via some other
> dependency, but in F41 it does not.
> 
> Explicitly install 'file' for the coverity job, in the same way we
> already do for curl and wget.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> I don't know any way to test this except by applying it and letting the
> coverity job run when it hits upstream git... Possibly we might find that
> it complains about some other missing dependency and we need to iterate
> on this.
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to master.


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