Re: [PATCH] gitlab: split deprecated job into build/check stages

[Thomas Huth]

On 02/10/2020 11.15, Alex Bennée wrote:
> While the job is pretty fast for only a few targets we still want to
> catch breakage of the build. By splitting the test step we can
> allow_failures for that while still ensuring we don't miss the build
> breaking.

Is there already something broken?

Otherwise, I'd rather simply remove the "allow_failure: true" tag
instead ... these jobs otherwise tend to get ignored.

> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.yml | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> index 346f23acf7..a51c89554f 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> @@ -270,9 +270,24 @@ build-deprecated:
>    variables:
>      IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
>      CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-docs --disable-tools
> -    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg
> +    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: build-tcg
>      TARGETS: ppc64abi32-linux-user tilegx-linux-user lm32-softmmu
>        unicore32-softmmu
> +  artifacts:
> +    expire_in: 2 days
> +    paths:
> +      - build
> +
> +# We split the check-tcg step as test failures are expected but we still
> +# want to catch the build breaking.
> +check-deprecated:
> +  <<: *native_test_job_definition
> +  needs:
> +    - job: build-deprecated
> +      artifacts: true
> +  variables:
> +    IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
> +    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg

Anyway, that's better than before, so:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>