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[Bjorn Tillenius <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 :)


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