[master] e7d624664 First stab at getting coverity running

[Federico Schwindt]

I personally like to have everything in plain sight and I really like how
it turned.

Running coverity in a cron was the idea and it's how is implemented after
the second commit.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:34 PM Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi at varni.sh> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:13 PM Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch at lodoss.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > commit e7d6246645ba316ac05cc0e5abc9b2e68ba71587
> > Author: Federico G. Schwindt <fgsch at lodoss.net>
> > Date:   Thu Mar 14 22:08:52 2019 +0000
> >
> >     First stab at getting coverity running
>
> Back when I introduced Coverity Scan support in cashpack I managed to
> contain the complexity:
>
> https://github.com/Dridi/cashpack/blob/master/.travis.yml#L50-L57
>
> The ugly part was that 1) I triggered those on demand by pushing
> master to a dedicated "coverity_scan" branch and 2) since I have a
> plethora of jobs in my matrix I wanted to make sure the coverity build
> happened only once:
>
> https://github.com/Dridi/cashpack/blob/master/.travis.yml#L58-L59
>
> And I think it's an opportunity to have a travis/ subdirectory in our
> tools/ directory to offload some of the yaml file complexity to
> external scripts. It worked like a charm for me with vmod-querystring:
>
>
> https://github.com/Dridi/libvmod-querystring/blob/master/.travis.yml#L59-L61
> https://github.com/Dridi/libvmod-querystring/tree/master/travis
>
> If I needed to redo it today, I would use a Travis cron build instead
> of a dedicated branch. The mechanic to detect whether it's a cron
> job or a dedicated branch is basically the same: inspect your
> environment.
>
> I do this to run weekly CI against master instead of my minimum
> required version:
>
>
> https://github.com/Dridi/libvmod-querystring/blob/master/travis/install_varnish.sh
>
> And that's how I'm informed when something lands in master and
> breaks downstream. (VRT, vmodtool, new varnish dependencies...)
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> Dridi
>
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