Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.7] travis: drop broken LLVM repos

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/7/16 12:17 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Doug Goldstein writes ("[PATCH for-4.7] travis: drop broken LLVM repos"):
>> LLVM repos are currently down so drop them from being installed so we
>> can get some testing back.
> 
> This is unfortunate churn to be having in our tree.  I'm happy for
> this removal commit to go in, but isn't there a way to deal with this
> that doesn't involve updating a metadata file in xen.git ?
> 
> (This kind of external repo dependency is one reason why osstest likes
> to fetch its inputs from a very small number of different places, with
> many files and trees copied to xenbits.)
> 
> Ian.
> 

You can see it two ways. The tests for that specific version are always
available since they're part of the repo. But if external dependencies
go away then those tests are broken.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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