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

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.