[perl PATCH v4 1/3] gitlab: add CI jobs for validating build across platforms

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 11:41 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 12:04:10PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Partially related point: I just realized that, among the projects
> > we've added to GitLab CI so far, I don't think there's a single one
> > where we're testing that we can successfully build RPMs. This is
> > something that CentOS CI does, and I think it's important that we
> > keep testing it on GitLab CI.
> 
> The way we tested RPM builds was a bit gross in CentOS as we were
> hacking the spec to cut out the BuildRequires. I'd like to figure
> out a better way todo that which actually reflects the way we'll
> run builds for real.
> 
> When testing against distro-provided libvirtd this is quite easy
> as we have the right devel packages present.
> 
> Testing against GIT it is harder.

I realize that, but while we figure out a better way can we keep
the current way around? Otherwise we're losing test coverage for
something that people probably don'normally run as part of their
everyday development workflow.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization