Re: Selectively suppressing CI on some sites for a commit?

[Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:22:15 -0800
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> On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 14:11:54 -0800 Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
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> > > I've just updated the libpcap .appveyor.yml to get Npcap from
> > > npcap.com (the Npcap site has been moved there); I added [skip
> > > cirrus] to skip Cirrus CI for that change, and it appears to work.
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> > That's nice to know.  Either this is a relatively recent skip pattern in
> > Cirrus CI, or I didn't notice it before (see my message to the list
> > from 21 August 2020).
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> ...or it doesn't work, even though the CI page on tcpdump.org didn't show the builds as being in progress.  It looks as 
> if the libpcap builds *did* occur, and a tcpdump build (with the equivalent .appveyor.yml update) is in progress.
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> > Do you think https://www.tcpdump.org/ci.html should document [skip cirrus] and [skip appveyor]?
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> [skip appveyor], possibly.  [skip cirrus], no, as my inference that it worked appears to be wrong.
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> > > Are there other comments to add to suppress OpenCSW CI and to
> > > suppress the other CI sites that have been set up?  The only one I
> > > want *not* suppressed is AppVeyor.
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> > Not immediately, or not at all.  However, there are only two Buildbot
> > places where all skip patterns are processed (or not).
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> > ci.tcpdump.org recognizes [skip ci] because that's the default
> > behaviour in that version of Buildbot.  Following the documentation,
> > several months and Buildbot versions ago I tried adding [skip buildbot]
> > to the list of skip patterns, but for some reason it had no effect
> > (could be a user error or a bug). Would it help to try again?
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> I tried it with the tcpdump build, and it *appears* to work with the Tcpdump Group buildbots (the RISC-V one is 
> running, but it's still working on a build from a change François submitted 3 hours ago, so it hasn't even started my 
> change; that buildbot appears not to be the fastest computer in existence, shall we say).
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> > I am not familiar with OpenCSW Buildbot setup, but from the build
> > history it is obvious it disregards [skip ci], so it looks likely it
> > would disregard [skip buildbot] too.
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> It appears to disregard it.
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