Github user tliron commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-ariatosca/pull/191#discussion_r138103044 --- Diff: .travis.yml --- @@ -10,36 +10,55 @@ # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. -sudo: false +# We need to set "sudo: true" in order to use a virtual machine instead of a container, because +# SSH tests fail in the container. See: +# https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/overview/#Virtualization-environments + +dist: trusty +sudo: true language: python -dist: precise +addons: + apt: + sources: + - sourceline: 'ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes' + packages: + # Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) does not come with Python 2.6, so we will install it from Felix + # Krull's PPA + - python2.6 + - python2.6-dev + python: + # We handle Python 2.6 testing from within tox (see tox.ini); note that this means that we run + # tox itself always from Python 2.7 - '2.7' env: - - TOX_ENV=pylint_code - - TOX_ENV=pylint_tests - - TOX_ENV=py27 - - TOX_ENV=py26 - - TOX_ENV=py27e2e - - TOX_ENV=py26e2e - - TOX_ENV=py27ssh - - TOX_ENV=py26ssh - - TOX_ENV=docs - -install: + # The PYTEST_PROCESSES environment var is used in tox.ini to override the --numprocesses argument + # for PyTest's xdist plugin. The reason this is necessary is that conventional Travis environments + # may report a large amount of available CPUs, but they they are greatly restricted. Through trial + # and error we found that more than 1 process may result in failures. + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=pylint_code + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=pylint_tests + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=py27 + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=py26 + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=py27e2e + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=py26e2e + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=py27ssh + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=py26ssh + - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 TOX_ENV=docs + +before_install: + # Create SSH keys for SSH tests + - ssh-keygen -f $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa -t rsa -N '' + - cat $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys + + # Python dependencies - pip install --upgrade pip - pip install --upgrade setuptools - pip install tox - -script: - - pip --version - tox --version - - PYTEST_PROCESSES=1 tox -e $TOX_ENV --- End diff -- While working on this file it seemed odd to me that this one env variable is not in the .travis.yml "env" section. It makes sense to group it here, too, because in the future we might find that some tox envs run fine with multiprocess. (The Travis VMs/containers all have 2 cores, actually. I still don't know why are our tests fail when we switch to 2 processes.)
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