Hi, I'm wondering about the best way to install a dependency package on GitLab runners.
I'm adding libvfio-user [1] as a submodule to QEMU. libvfio-user depends on the availability of the "json-c" package. As such, we need to install this package to build the library as part of QEMU. I saw that we could add a "before_script" section to the jobs in ".gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml" - this section could have commands to install the "json-c" package before running the job. However, this option is specific to a job. I wonder if there is a way to do this for all jobs. I saw that "scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml" has a list of packages needed to build QEMU - this one seems Ubuntu-specific. How long does it take for changes made to this file (build-environment.yml) to propagate? Are all QEMU's GitLab runners Ubuntu-based? Thank you very much! -- Jag [1]: https://github.com/nutanix/libvfio-user
