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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