2016.9 includes a rewrite of each of the daemons used by LAVA, lava-server, lava-master and lava-slave. When installing the upgrade, admins need to accept the maintainer's version of the scripts in /etc/init.d/ for these daemons. Where previously changes were made in the scripts in /etc/init.d/, the same parameters can now be changed in associated configuration files to prevent these conflicts in the future.

/etc/init.d/lava-slave - change /etc/lava-dispatcher/lava-slave /etc/init.d/lava-master - change /etc/lava-server/lava-master /etc/init.d/lava-server - change /etc/default/lava-server

The prompt would look something like this: Configuration file '/etc/init.d/lava-server' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** lava-server (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y

See https://validation.linaro.org/static/docs/v2/pipeline-server.html#configurin...

References in the changelogs, commit history and announcements which start with LAVA- followed by a number relate to the planning stories which the LAVA team use for new features. The LAVA planning has now been opened up to anonymous access by appending the reference to a stub URL: http://projects.linaro.org/browse/, e.g.

http://projects.linaro.org/browse/LAVA-62

The planning stories do not support comments or changes other than by the LAVA software team. If you have comments on the stories, please use the lava-users mailing list.

lava-server changes Show measurements and units of testcase detail page Drop lxc schema - no support for alternatives Configure logging for linaro_django_xmlpc calls Fix link to lava-tool context-help Fix the "Debian-based distribution" link grammar Improve monitor test type, allow multiple tests LAVA-494 allow searching for device tags in tables Add support for LXC with multinode Fix broken ref link for unit_test Fix NoReverseMatch from ImageReports2.0 editing. Fix typo in ./share/validate.py --hostname Update hikey jinja2 templates for LXC Fix occasionally failing multinode tests. Add a configuration file for lava-master Update lava-slave and lava-master docs LAVA-374 - drop versiontools Tidy up some build errors and reformat consistently. Improve documentation describing inline test definitions Major improvements for the "Writing MultiNode" page Add docs for the lava-vland-names change Using BOOTX in Juno bootcmds Correcting default uboot commands in juno device template Document the code locations for developers Ensure multinode description is generated correctly Allowing overrides to connection and action timeouts master: Fix log rotations Remove filtering by filter id for available testcases in image reports. Init: remove the right lock file and simplify Adding uboot jinja2 templates for all Juno flavours LAVA-739 - declare sub_id and job.id for multinode master: don't validate jobs on the master select_device only accepts pipeline jobs Remove legacy SyntaxHighlighter from job definition pages. lava-master: simplify log file handling Fix title disappearance on image reports. Ignore retired devices in validate call Don't add anchors to logs for running jobs Don't crash when log contains invalid test names Schema: accept 'parse' for inline test definitions Use libYAML when loading logs LAVA queries use cases. Bug link fix for url regex. Add LogEntry for BugLinks. Update the init scripts Remove the entry point as it's no longer needed Ensure test-case name is valid Extend vland unit tests to cover assignment Expand on the device dictionary and templates Expand the notes on using jessie-backports Add a Contents page Rewrite lava-server command line from scratch events: set umask to a restrictive value Bug links port. LAVA-200 - track admin actions made in the UI Add device tags support to V2 Allow the monitor test type Update qemu command line options for arm64

lava-dispatcher changes

Catch the edge case where serial line corruption means we miss the testrun Add support for alternative Test actions Update manpage of lava-slave for configuration change. Allow configuring the slave from file git: use -C instead of --git-dir Allow setting the envrionment on most systems Handle exceptions from subprocess from compression download: don't expand the path when retrying Grab finalize from the root pipeline Log exception as strings and not objects LAVA-740 - export vlan names and interface names Reopen log file when rotating the logs LAVA-699 - Support hi6220-hikey board with lxc Init: remove the right lock file and simplify pipeline:vland: raise JobError if switch_id or port_id is None Remove redundant assignation Allow logging at the validate stage Force the shell to produce an initial prompt Handle errors if the testrun start is omitted. Pipeline parser: sort and reverse in one call logs: remove unused support for local logs slave: put all tmp files into the same directory Power: improve logging message Exclude patterns from description Port lava-slave to Python3 ApplyOverlayTftp: remove duplicated untar_file ExportDeviceEnvironment: only source valid shell_file's add LEDE to available distributions Always log the command to be run beforehand.

There is currently a delay on uploading lava-server to jessie-backports due to problems with uwsgi in Debian. A backport will be made available once these problems are fixed. In the meantime, the same build as will later appear in jessie-backports is available in the production-repo:

https://validation.linaro.org/static/docs/v2/installing_on_debian.html#lava-...

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lava-server

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lava-dispatcher

https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-linaro-lava-devel%40lists.alio...