[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 00/20] Many CI fixes

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I'm lukewarm about patch 3, but all the rest are fine so ACK on those.
More comments below:

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 09:53:41AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> Lot of clean-ups for the CI.  I also added support for easily
> configurable way of skipping particular tests on selected distros.
> However, I only skipped those that do not have and easy way of
> detecting a broken dependency and such like.  What is still missing
> is:
>
> - All the CentOS builds have issues with three tests that seem like
>   a protocol violation, but can very well be a bug in some test
>   dependency.  Since this is the closest to RHEL we can get, I think
>   it's worth investigating.

I can't access the gitlab pipelines at the moment because there's some
problem with gitlab+Firefox, but which version of CentOS was this and
what kind of problem was it?

FWIW I built and testing libnbd and nbdkit on RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and
CentOS 9 Stream yesterday.  I fixed a few minor things (see commit
history) but basically they were all working.

> - FreeBSDs do not even build and it looks like some libtool wrapper
>   script is fed into a C preprocessor, which fails terribly due to
>   the script comments (but should not be fed there at all, of
>   course.

It was building OK for me yesterday (and also on OpenBSD).  Do you
know what the error was?

> - MacOS has issues, although that one is marked to allow failures
>   and the issue does not seem to be on our side anyway.  I won't
>   look into it for a while and see if it sorts itself out.

I don't have a way to test/reproduce macOS failures but if I could see
the failures I might have some ideas.

Rich.

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