> > On 8/25/22 14:52, David Marchand wrote:
> > > Debian packaging target builds OVS against a packaged DPDK version.
> > > As a result, it is not relevant in the dpdk-latest branch which follows
> > > DPDK development branch.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
> b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
> > > index 58ab85e5d7..b555f45024 100644
> > > --- a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
> > > +++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
> > > @@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ jobs:
> > >          path: config.log
> > >
> > >    build-linux-deb:
> > > +    if: ${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/dpdk-latest' }}
> >
> > Hmm.  This doesn't seem to work for the robot as it doesn't use the
> > 'dpdk-latest' as a branch name.  Maybe we should define the DPDK_VER
> > variable globally and check it instead?
> 
> Indeed, filtering on branch name is not enough for patches submitted
> against dpdk-latest branch.
> 
> We discussed this offlist.
> For others, here is a summary of what I tried.
> 
> I tried to define DPDK_VER as a global env variable.
> But filtering on this env does not work: I get non-obvious errors from
> gha yml checker.
> 
> After reading the documentation, I understand that a job level if
> can't use global env: context.
> https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-
> actions/contexts#context-availability
> "jobs.<job_id>.if" is marked as only supporting github, needs, inputs
> contexts.
> 
> Funnily, "jobs.<job_id>.steps.if" can use env context, but marking all
> steps with this is really ugly as a job is started for nothing.
> 
> Since the "needs" context is supported, I tried to build a pipeline:
> - added a "dummy" job outputs the global env variable,
> - then, the debian packaging jobs were made dependent on this dummy
> job, and the if: keyword used the output of the env variable,
> This works, but we start a job simply to cover a limitation in GHA.
> This is ugly.
> 
> On the other hand, the dpdk-latest already has a patch to select which
> DPDK version to build against.
> So when dpdk-latest will be rebased on current master, the simpler is
> to update this patch and put a if: false in front of the debian
> packaging jobs as part of the change.
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > BTW, not a problem of this patch, but I spotted this:
> >
> >           - compiler:     gcc
> >             dpdk_shared:  dpdk_experimental
> >
> > While it should be:
> >
> >           - compiler:           gcc
> >             dpdk_experimental:  yes
> >
> > Otherwise, I don't think we're testing experimental APIs.
> 
> Mm, good catch.
> That is really strange as I remember fixing and testing this stuff...
> I'll look at it.
> 
> I think the simpler is to send rebased patches for dpdk-latest.
> Ian, are you ok with it?

Sure sounds ok to me.

Thanks
Ian
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand

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