Re: GitLab CI runners for non-Linux systems

[Alan Coopersmith <alan coopersmith oracle com>]

On 05/23/18 09:40 AM, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 16:19 +0200, Christoph Reiter wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> > <alan coopersmith oracle com> wrote:
> > > On 05/18/18 02:52 AM, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > > > Can anybody else provide and maintain CI runners for other
> > > > platforms?
> > >
> > > Are there instructions somewhere on what's needed to do this?
> >
> > 1) Install the gitlab runner on a server:
> > https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/#install-gitlab-runner
>
> I’m not sure of the latest status of this, but it looks like gitab-
> runner might need some porting work to Solaris to be done before it can
> be used. There’s some information about it here:
>
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/1764
>
> > 2) Fork glib on gitlab and register your runner in the forked repo
> > settings
> > 3) Adjust the .gitlab-ci.yml file to add a job using your runner. See
> > Xavier's recent patch for
> >   macos for what's roughly needed there:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796343
>
> Additionally, once all that is working, file an ‘infrastructure’ issue
> (like https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/GitLab/issues/141) to get
> a CI token for the runner to be used by GitLab.

Thanks - I'm not going to have time until after we get Solaris 11.4
shipped, but hopefully later this year I'll have some time to see if
we can get a Solaris runner set up in the Oracle cloud.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-               alan coopersmith oracle com
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

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