[OE-core] [PATCH 3/6] oe-selftest: extend virgl gtk test to also check the SDL option

[Michael Halstead]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:56 AM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 18:20, Michael Halstead <
> mhalstead at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> > If you replace that with tigervnc (a modern, supported fork of
>> tightvnc), then the tests pass fine.
>> > https://tigervnc.org/
>> >
>>
>> TigerVNC is now installed from the standard repos where available.
>>
>> >
>> > As Fedora has already obsoleted tightvnc in favor of tigervnc, I think
>> we should do the same on all debian machines (debian provides both tightvnc
>> and tigervnc, but treats them as equal).
>> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tightvnc/blob/master/f/dead.package
>> > I also checked that tightvnc is not available for opensuse either.
>>
>>
>> Server components of TigerVNC are in xorg-x11-Xvnc package which is
>> installed on all the openSUSE workers so I expect the VNC server there to
>> work. Please let me know if they do not.
>>
>>
>> On Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8 workers I've installed from
>> https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.9.0. This should allow
>> tests to complete. Installing packages outside of the distribution's
>> package manager might invalidate these as sanity tested distros. I'd
>> appreciate feedback about this.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot! There are two things to check:
> 1. Old instances of vnc may still be running and should be shut down (via
> 'vncserver -kill :1')
> 2. vncserver executable should point to tigervnc (if both tigervnc and
> tightvnc are installed - I don't know if you removed the tightvnc packages).
>

I removed tightvnc and all workers have been rebooted so we are good to go.

Any comment on using packages from outside of the distro's official
packaging?


>
> Otherwise everything should be ready for re-testing the patches. I can
> resend them if needed.
>
> Alex
>
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