Build Environment Update History

2016-08-24 #

This update affects fully-virtualized Linux environments.

Full YAML dump of build-time Chef attributes at /.node-attributes.yml
Ruby 2.3.1 to preinstalled versions on ruby-precise stack
Installation of the following in base packages on all “rich” (non-minimal) stacks:
- x11-utils
- xserver-xorg-core
- xserver-xorg-video-all
- xvfb
Explicitly disabling IPv6 as it is not supported on Google Compute Engine (related to travis-ci/packer-templates#216)

Installation of fglrx with base packages, as it (seemingly) conflicts with the GLX extension being enabled in xvfb (travis-ci/packer-templates#220, travis-ci/travis-ci#6508)

Various issues with the content of /etc/hosts (travis-ci/travis-ci#6452, various support tickets related to Java library host resolution, e.g. Selenium driver)
- Ensure only one entry for 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1
- Ensure entry for localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1
- Ensure entry for hostname and ip4-loopback resolve to 127.0.1.1
Ensure user.name and user.email are set in ~travis/.gitconfig (travis-ci/packer-templates#214)
Ensure xvfb has GLX extension enabled (travis-ci/packer-templates#220, travis-ci/travis-ci#6508)
Ensure php-fpm is available in $PATH (related to travis-ci/packer-templates#244)
Ensure default php version has expected modules (travis-ci/packer-templates#244)