Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] .travis.yml: migrate to container builds

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:45:09AM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This moves the Travis tests from their old legacy VM
> infrastructure (which only seems to run 5-6 jobs at once) to their new
> container based approach.
> 
> The principle difference is there is no sudo in the containers so all
> packages are installed using the apt add-on. This means one of the build
> combinations can be dropped as it was only for checking the build with
> additional packages.
> 
> I've disabled the user-space tracing build until the dependant packages
> go through the Travis package white-listing process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

Tested-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>

Is it safe to just drop that build combination, or should we instead
be doing something else to test the build _without_ those extra
packages?


[snip]
> @@ -86,10 +103,10 @@ matrix:
>      - env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>             EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-trace-backends=ftrace"
>        compiler: gcc
> -    - env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
> -          EXTRA_PKGS="liblttng-ust-dev liburcu-dev"
> -          EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-trace-backends=ust"
> -      compiler: gcc
> +    # UST backend disabled until liblttng-ust-dev pkg white-listed
> +    #- env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
> +    #       EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-trace-backends=ust"
> +    #  compiler: gcc

This comment is a bit confusing to me, since the apt addon package
list already seems to include liblttng-ust-dev.

>      - env: TARGETS=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>             EXTRA_CONFIG="--enable-modules"
>        compiler: gcc

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