Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 7/7] make-flight: Stripy xenstored [and 2 more messages]

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/01/2021 17:37, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 7/7] make-flight: Stripy 
> xenstored"):
>> Or does OSSTest have an explicit "is xenstored running" check after
>> boot, before any further testing occurs?
> No.
>
> If this turns out to ever happen we can improve the pre-checking.  In
> general I let the chips fall where they may, for test failures, and
> improve the checking/logging later.  Otherwise adding new tests
> becomes very time-consuming (and there is also the risk that added
> checks do not align with actual behvaiour).

I'm not objecting to this going in as-is, but I want to at least ensure
we're not heading in blind.

In practice, a lot of what I'm trying to achieve with some of the
extended commentary on the autotests thread is better pre-checking of
this kind of form, although admittedly at a rather lower level than "is
xenstored running".

>
> Now that it's builing, I think it's fairly unlikely that we will
> accidentally stop building one of the xenstoreds.

Well - I ask specifically because there is a thread on xen-devel about
upping the minimum supported version of Ocaml, in order to simplify a
couple of aspects.

This would manifest as oxenstored no longer building on older distros. 
(I've got no idea if the specific suggestion would impact OSSTest this
time.)

For now - lets just fix our testing gap.

~Andrew