Libguestfs - May 2021 - CI for libnbd is now active

I have (finally) pushed the CI enablement patches upstream and can see
the pipeline running already here:

   https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/pipelines

Clicking on the status opens it up, amongst other clickable objects are
the stage icons.

I managed to fix the easier issues, but there are still more which I do
not know how to solve (and for some of them I tried more than I
should've).

There's a small write-up, partially copied from libvirt, in
ci/README.rst, feel free to change the format.  The patch on top of
libvirt-ci that was used for generating the initial CI assets in ci/ was
submitted as a merge request here:

   https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci/-/merge_requests/120

and that is were dependency changes need to be tracked.

I'm glad to answer any questions.

Have a nice day,
Martin
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On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:43:15PM +0200, Martin Kletzander
wrote:
> I have (finally) pushed the CI enablement patches upstream and can see
> the pipeline running already here:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/pipelines
> 
> Clicking on the status opens it up, amongst other clickable objects are
> the stage icons.
> 
> I managed to fix the easier issues, but there are still more which I do
> not know how to solve (and for some of them I tried more than I
> should've).
Thanks for pushing this.

Looking at: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/pipelines/304554718
What do grey circles (eg. x64-centos-stream-8) mean?

FAIL: info-list-uris.sh looks like it fails reliably on centos 8 so
I'll have a look into that one.

On Debian 10 (and also RHEL 7) several tests fail because they
implicitly require nbdkit >= 1.14, the first version that allowed you
to omit the size= parameter prefix on the memory plugin.  I will fix
that soon.

https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/jobs/1270049102 is caused by
qemu-storage-daemon being broken in qemu 6.0.0.  See:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/218 and
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel at nongnu.org/msg808666.html
I'm not sure there's an easy workaround on the libnbd side.

Rich.

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