NACK [SRU zesty/xenial/trusty] LP#1705495 -- limit rebuild test duration
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Fri Jul 28 07:41:33 UTC 2017
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 05:17:19PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have recently had problems with the kernel rebuild test failing in
> timeout on armhf. This test is intended to show that toolchain changes do
> not prevent the kernel building. Right now this performs a full kernel
> build for the architecure. This is excessive as a single flavour build
> would validate this. If we look at the existing code we added a new
> build profile for autopkgtest use which would reduce the flavours to one.
> We have never used it. It should also be noted that the name of the
> profile variable has changed since this was penned and it was never
> updated.
>
> Following this email is a patch for zesty, xenial and trusty. Firstly
> fixes the naming of the profile variable. Secondly it uses the profile
> when doing rebuild tests. Note that this uses the short form -P<profile>
> form for compatibility back to trusty.
>
> Proposing for SRU to zesty, xenial, and trusty.
I guess we should do this properly. Will fix and resubmit.
-apw
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