Re: GitLab CI runners for non-Linux systems

[Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>]

On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 10:03 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.

Sure. Whenever you get time, it would be appreciated (and I hope it
would reduce your porting workload, in the long run). Let me know when
you pick this up, or if you have any questions then.

Thanks,
Philip

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