On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:13:06AM +1300, Michael Hudson wrote: > Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:35:38AM +1300, Michael Hudson wrote: > >> Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> next week I'd like us to get rid of the jscheck buildbot builder, and > >>> instead run the Windmill tests in the normal devel and db-devel (and > >>> later also production-devel) builders. > >>> > >>> In order to do this, we need to update all the images. Michael, you did > >>> set up the jscheck builder, right?> > >> Well, the LOSAs set it up at my instruction. > >> > >>> Can you make sure that the LOSAs know > >>> what needs to be added to the devel and db-devel images? > >> The only difference is installing a few more packages, I think. > >> > >>> Also, someone needs to updated the images we use to run tests on EC2. > >>> Who's responsible for that? Again I ask Michael, since you know what > >>> needs to be done, and have updated those images in the past. But please > >>> feel free to delegate to someone else :) > >> If the extra dependencies become part of > >> launchpad-developer-dependencies in the ~launchpad PPA, then updating > >> the EC2 image is really really easy. And I think it would probably make > >> updating the buildbot images easier too... > > > > Yeah, I was a bit hesitant about adding it to > > launchpad-developer-dependencies, since it's only used for testing on > > non-developer machines, but it's worth adding it anyway, to make it > > easier to update the images. And actually, after playing around with it > > a bit, I definitly want to run the Windmill tests headless locally as > > well. It's so much nicer not having Firefox pop up now and then when > > running 'make jscheck'. > > Well, we could have the launchpad-dependencies source package build > another 'launchpad-headless-tests' package or something, but I don't > think it's much extra on a developer system really.
Right, the xvfb package is very small. > >>> Oh, and I guess PQM will have to be updated as well, since we currently > >>> run tests there for cherry picks, right? > >>> > >>> Ideally the images should be updated on Monday, when PQM is open again. > >>> I don't want to do it earlier, to avoid disrupting any possible rollout, > >>> and I don't want it done much later, since we need to get started > >>> running the tests early, so that we can fix any issues before the 3.1.12 > >>> rollout. > >> Monday sounds ambitious but doable. > > > > Yeah, that's why I said 'ideally' :) I suspect it will take a bit longer > > to get everything updated. > > > >> If you can get > >> launchpad-developer-dependencies updated, I can do the EC2 test images > >> on my Monday -- drop me a mail. > > > > You wouldn't happen to know which extra packages were installed to get > > it to work? I'm assuming xvfb needs to be there. But what about firefox, > > which packages where installed to get it to run? Plain 'firefox', or > > something else? > > My IRC logs suggest this was the magic line: > > apt-get -y install xvfb firefox xfonts-base Cool. The launchpad-developer-dependencies 0.59 now depends on the extra packages. If you could create new ec2 images, it would be great. If you could explain how to update the images, even better :) -- Björn Tillenius | https://launchpad.net/~bjornt _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
