Re: GitLab CI's Most Wanted list

[Francois Gouget]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023, Eric Pouech wrote:
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> I've tried to repro a couple of them locally, recreating the docker image with
> the docker script... to no avail

I have a question on that subject: how do you run the Wine tests in your 
local docker image?

The reason I ask is that reproducing GitLab CI's container and using it 
for builds is pretty easy. But running the tests in it requires starting 
X and the commands (in test.yml) for that are not directly usable 
outside the GitLab environment.

So do you copy/paste all the xinitrc, startx, wine-mono & co stuff to a 
script, append the ./wine command you want to run at the end and do 
something like "docker run gitlab-debian12 ./myscript"?

That also assumes mounting the current directory somewhere in the 
container but having a script that does echo >~/.xinitrc sounds like a 
disaster waiting to happen if it's accidentally run in the wrong 
environment.

Or did you add a RUN directive in the Dockerfile to start X and then 
'docker exec' your test in it?

I feel like it would be nice if tools/gitlab contained a script or 
something to make this whole process easier. Developers have actually 
asked me [1] "how can I replicate the GitLab CI environment" a few times 
already.


[1] Why ask me? Am I the GitLab CI maintainer now?

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Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com>