[U-Boot] required host packages on Travis CI

Tom Rini
2019-11-01T13:07:04Z

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:34:35PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Tom,
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 07:17:29AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 03:30:58PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Tom,
> > >
> > > In test/py/README.md, all the required host packages and their
> > > versions to be used on 14.04(Trusty) are listed. On the other hand,
> > > ".travis.yml" names a similar but different list of packages.
> > > The latter also specifies the distribution to be used, which is
> > > xenial(16.04).
> > >
> > > * How would like to sync those two different lists?
> > > * Do you still think it appropriate to mention the "tested versions"
> > > in README.md at all?
> >
> > The README is woefully out of date and I addressed that as part of:
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=138421
>
> Oooops, I haven't noticed it.
>
> > Please note that moving forward, the GitLab and Azure CI files need to
> > be kept up to date as well, but with at least one of them being updated
> > I can help with the other two. Thanks!
>
> Although I don't understand what you mean above very well,
> some questions:
> 1) Is it good enough just to put a package name in .travis.yml's addons
> if all the required binaries (commands) are installed in standard
> PATH?

For Travis, the list of packages there is what we apt-get install, so
yes, it's found in the normal PATH and we can add to that as needed.

> 2) I need efitools package, but a version provided in xenial(16.04) is
> quite old and some command has a fatal bug. So my current py test
> will fail.
> We need v1.5.2 or later of efitools, which is only available
> in cosmic(18.10) and later.
> How can we address this issue? Do we need some script to build efitools
> on our own on GitLab/Travis server?

Currently, Travis, GitLab and Azure all use Bionic. Is the version of
the tool available there good enough? If not, can we grab only the
tool .deb and install that by hand? We have to do that for libmpfr4 for
example today. If we can't then yes, this is yet another thing that we
need to figure out a better way of dealing with between Travis (where we
build QEMU as needed) and GitLab/Azure (which uses a Docker container we
manage, and so build QEMU once).

> 3) (Not specific to secure boot test)
> Does "su" or "sudo" command work on Travis CI server?

sudo is available and is working today in all 3 CI servers.

--
Tom
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