[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: update travis to use bionic

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 4:27 PM Andrzej Ostruszka <amo at semihalf.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/19 12:42 PM, Kevin Laatz wrote:
> > Currently, the Travis CI is using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) which is
> > becoming increasingly outdated. This patch updates Travis to use Ubuntu
> > 18.04 LTS (Bionic) which will give us the benefit of more up-to-date
> > packages being availble and the newer features that come with them.
>
> Acked-by: Andrzej Ostruszka <amo at semihalf.com>
>
> But I do have a question - should this come together with removal of
> extra sources/packages added just to overcome building problems
> resulting from outdated distro?  Or this should be responsibility of
> person that added those (e.g. I've added gcc-7 from
> ubuntu-toolchain/r-test for LTO builds)

We disabled the LTO job in Travis on 11/08:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=20d3f48be1d1
Were you referring to something else?

Thanks.

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David Marchand