[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 0/5] Introduce automated testing using GitLab CI

[Martin Kletzander]

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 01:34:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:16:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 01:30:05PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> > FreeBSD
>> > =======
>> >
>> > The build fails because there is no fallocate() there.
>>
>> I'm actually not seeing a failure (FreeBSD 12.2).  Do you happen to
>> know what the build error was?
>>
>> I'm seeing test failures though which I'll fix if they are easy.  I
>> think for non-Linux right now I'm most concerned about build failures.
>
>Another problem with the libnbd tests is that they use the installed
>nbdkit, but -- presumably for political rather than technical reasons --
>nbdkit on FreeBSD is built without GnuTLS support.  While I could add
>'requires' lines everywhere to test this, it may be better (on
>FreeBSD) to either not test against nbdkit at all or to test against
>the latest nbdkit build.  Could CI tests allow this?  Don't worry
>about implementing this, I just want to know what's possible.
>

That is a future plan after basic functionality is working.  I am still
debating whether running both builds make sense (with and without
building own nbdkit).

For nbdkit I will go with the same (running against self-built libnbd
and maybe without it as well).

>The situation for testing nbdkit is similar but reversed.  FreeBSD
>does not package libnbd at all so far, but I'm quite sure they'll also
>build a TLS-less version if they get around to it.
>
>Someone requested a version of libnbd that supported OpenSSL as an
>alternative crypto backend recently.  I wonder if they were a *BSD
>developer?
>
>Rich.
>
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