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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 12:54:26PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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.

I took the lazy route and just used --nodeps


Regards,
Daniel
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