Notice of impending change to Gitlab CI

[Ahmad Samir]

On 4/9/22 10:42, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently our Gitlab CI jobs for Linux (SUSE) and Android (Ubuntu) run
> their respective jobs as root within the Docker containers that Gitlab
> spawns for them.
> 
> This is a restriction that was previously required by the simultaneous use
> of these same images by Jenkins, which following the shutdown of
> build.kde.org this weekend is no longer a problem.
> 
> I will look into making this adjustment to our CI image(s) in the coming
> week for Linux (SUSE). Once implemented, tests which made use of root
> privileges may begin to fail (and those that were incompatible with it will
> begin to pass).
> 
> Android Qt 5 builds still share the image with the Binary Factory and
> therefore will have to continue to run as root at this time until we are
> able to discontinue the BInary Factory (or at least, Android's use of it).
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 

Good work!

This is especially good news for KIO (and possibly other frameworks with unittests that make heavy 
use of I/O operations).

Regards,
Ahmad Samir

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