[libvirt PATCH 1/2] gitlab-ci.yaml: Introduce a variable to disable long broken jobs

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 04:05:48PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:03:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:56:03PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 01:53:49PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 02:42:54PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > > > > Unfortunately GitLab doesn't have a different mechanism on how to mark
> > > > > jobs as skipped or disabled apart from the 'only'/'except' pragmas.
> > > > > Use the 'except' pragma for the job templates to skip jobs which define
> > > > > the DISABLE_JOB variable.
> > > > 
> > > > What's wrong with using
> > > > 
> > > >    when: never  (or manual to let devs force it from the UI)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 'when: never' can only be used in conjunction with the 'rules' keyword [1],[2]
> > > which in turn is mutually exclusive with 'only/except' [3] which we currently
> > > utilize.
> > 
> > Gitlab recommends use of "rules" over "only/except", so we should
> > probably change that.
> 
> I noticed, but it either wasn't clear or I simply missed in the docs how you
> can restrict job execution by a particular branch with rules.

Do a match against the env variable

    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "master"'

Regards,
Daniel
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