[U-Boot] required host packages on Travis CI

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 04:12:40PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 09:07:04AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 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 The README is woefully out of date and I addressed that as part of: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.
> 
> Good.
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> Not really. The version in Bionic(18.04) is still v1.4.2.
> Only Cosmic(18.10) and later support v1.8.1, which should work.
> 
> > If not, can we grab only the
> > tool .deb and install that by hand?  We have to do that for libmpfr4 for
> > example today.
> 
> From where do you fetch a pre-built package of libmpfr4?
> future release of ubuntu?
> If so, we may want to try one from Cosmic or later.

We wget it from 16.04 and install it manually, as it's otherwise
stand-alone.  You would need to explore doing that for this tool, but
grabbing from cosmic.

-- 
Tom
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