[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.2

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2021-05-11 at 11:34 +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:42 AM Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > 3cd7290c16  David Marchand   ci: catch coredumps
> 
> I can provide the backport for this.
> 
> But instead:
> 
> Since Travis is almost unusable, 20.11 stable maintainers won't be
> able to run non regression tests.
> I would recommend backporting GHA support in 20.11.
> 
> Another thing is that the 20.11 does not have ABI checks enabled.
> At the moment, backports are easy and won't break ABI, but later, once
> v21.11 is out, we must be careful not to backport anything breaking
> ABI.
> 
> 
> I did the test, cherry-picking needed patches for the suggestions above.
> 
> 87009585e2 - ci: hook to GitHub Actions (5 months ago) <David Marchand>
> 443267090e - ci: enable v21 ABI checks (5 months ago) <David Marchand>
> 9d620630ea - ci: fix package installation in GitHub Actions (5 months
> ago) <David Marchand>
> 1e90d1b67b - ci: ignore APT update failure in GitHub Actions (3 months
> ago) <David Marchand>
> 3cd7290c16 - ci: catch coredumps (10 weeks ago) <David Marchand>
> aa9cb78f66 - doc: fix sphinx rtd theme import in GHA (6 weeks ago)
> <David Marchand>
> 
> https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/actions/runs/831111482
> 
> 
> What do you think?

Sounds like a great idea to me - but we also need the coredump stuff,
as these tests are ran as package builds too, where that is needed, not
only on Travis.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi