[libvirt] [PATCH 3/4] travis: test upstart script handling on precise distro scenario

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 15:19 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Both precise and trusty use upstart, so there's no reason not
> > to apply this to both, especially if we're going trusty-only as
> > suggested earlier. Limiting it to the gcc build is rather strange
> > as well.
> 
> The initscript handling code is only exercised if you run 'make install'
> and only the 'make distcheck' rule I added to precise will exercise
> 'make install'.

That changes with patch 4/4, where you introduce a call to 'make
install' in the global script.

Either way, there's no downside in having the definition in the
global environment, as it makes everything tidier and easier to
reason about.

> > Even macOS doesn't seem bothered by that at all, though it's kinda
> > nasty to install an upstart init script there. Not that it would
> > break anything, but it just feels wrong.
> 
> We're not running 'make install' on macOS so its a no-op :-)

Yes we are, at least as of patch 4/4.

> > Perhaps we should improve our init system detection so that Ubuntu
> > releases older than 16.04 and CentOS 6 will automatically choose
> > upstart rather than passing this explicitly? The latter detects
> > init system "redhat", and frankly I'm not quite sure what that's
> > even supposed to be :)
> 
> Even though RHEL-6 supports upstart, I'm fairly sure we always
> deployed RHEL-6 using traditional initscripts, not the upstart
> scripts.

So we have on Ubuntu, apparently.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization