Update FreeBSD CI

[cmb69]

FreeBSD 13.2 is no longer supported[1], and apparently the respective Cirrus CI image has been removed. We update to FreeBSD 13.3.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup
[2] https://github.com/php/php-src/runs/33044888209

[iluuu1994]

For context: f2f656c. Apart from removing -Werror, ext/curl/tests/curl_setopt_ssl.phpt might need to be updated.

[cmb69]

Ah, missed your comment @iluuu1994. Thanks, I'll have a look.

We need to cater to 13.3 soon, though, since supports end end of the year. And that will go on. Basically, this is the same issue as with homebrew – we should not rely on rolling releases for security branches.

[iluuu1994]

@cmb69 Ignoring specific errors works for me too, thanks!

[iluuu1994]

We need to cater to 13.3 soon, though, since supports end end of the year. And that will go on. Basically, this is the same issue as with homebrew – we should not rely on rolling releases for security branches.

I agree, but how do we do this in practice? It makes sense to test against the newest version on master. I suppose we can downgrade to the latest LTS once we reach the security phase? Or we just stick to the LTS I guess. That's what we do for Ubuntu.

[cmb69]

I think it's best to use LTS whereever possible (except maybe for nightly master); unfortunately, there seems to be no LTS for Homebrew and (Cirrus CI) FreeBSD.

[iluuu1994]

That's unfortunate... Maybe it's time to finally try QEMU. Running freebsd in nightly (and maybe push with an opt-in flag like [FreeBSD]) might be enough.

[cmb69]

Cirrus CI runs FreeBSD on amd64, so there shouldn't be the need for QEMU. Still, setting up a FreeBSD might take a long time (a couple of years I had a VirtualBox FreeBSD, and it compiled everything from scratch; don't know if they have binary downloads nowadays).

Anyhow, FreeBSD passes now! \o/

[cmb69]

Running freebsd in nightly (and maybe push with an opt-in flag like [FreeBSD]) might be enough.

See ##16119.

[iluuu1994]

FWIU, QEMU can do virtualization, so there should be no benefit to using something like VirtualBox. I'm trying this now: https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm

[devnexen]

FWIU, QEMU can do virtualization, so there should be no benefit over using something like VirtualBox. I'm trying this now: https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm

Not a bad idea I use it on one of my projects. It is slow (3mn vs < 5 sec for Linux part) but it can work.

[iluuu1994]

I understand booting the VM is slow, is compilation & testing itself also slow?

[devnexen]

The difference is less visible but my workload is far lower than php's tough :) you ll see soon enough anyway.

[iluuu1994]

Indeed 🙂 I can share results in a few hours.

[iluuu1994]

Some tests fail, which I'll have to look at, but the compilation/testing itself is not significantly slower. https://github.com/iluuu1994/php-src/actions/runs/11859456813/job/33052443092 All in all, it takes 13 instead of 10 minutes, which can be attributed to the VM downloading (maybe we can cache it?) and booting. So, this should be a viable option, and we can probably even keep it for push.

[iluuu1994]

Thank you Christoph! We can proceed with this for now.