Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8 1/2] OSSTEST: introduce a raisin build test

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 15:47 +0200, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> El 04/08/15 a les 15.41, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> > On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 14:18 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 12:18 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > > > It hasn't actually failed though, is that normal?
> > > > >  
> > > > > It is an "optional" dependency, without it passthrough is 
> > > > > disabled in
> > > > > qemu-traditional. Passing -n tell raisin to "shut up, do nothing 
> > > > > and
> > > > > continue", so at the end the build still succeed.
> > > > 
> > > > What other sorts of things are optional?
> > > 
> > > There isn't really a distinction between mandatory dependencies and
> > > optional dependencies in raisin. This is what raisin is currently
> > > complaining about:
> > > 
> > > bridge-utils pciutils-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev
> > > 
> > > bridge-utils is actually a run time dependency for Xen, while
> > > libnl-3-dev and libnl-route-3-dev are build time dependencies for
> > > libvirt. I think they are needed for vlan support. Should I add them
> > > too?
> > 
> > I think so, I have a feeling Remus might use them too? cf "[PATCH] 
> > osstest:
> > install libnl3 packages" from Roger.
> 
> Yes, Remus needs libnl-3-dev and libnl-route-3-dev. They are available
> since Wheezy, but only the ones on Squeeze are new enough for the Remus
> code.

Squeeze was before Wheezy. I think you meant s/Squeeze/Jessie/?

>  Feel free to pick that patch, it only needs a comment in the
> description to mention that support for anything older than Wheezy is
> dropped.

Right, I think Ian was expecting a resend with that adding.

I was considering picking it up and doing that myself as I applied, but I'm
currently waiting for osstest to settle down a bit and for Wei's libvirt
changes to go through the push gate.

Ian.

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