Travis doesn't support xmllint on new Trusty environment

[MattGeri]

Travis now defaults to it's new Ubuntu Trusty environment (unless specified not to in the config file). However in this environment, xmllint or probably the libxml2-utils package is not installed.

So when the build tries to check the XML, an error is thrown:

xargs: xmllint: No such file or directory

Switching back to Ubuntu Precise is a short term fix for this. Add the following to .travis.yml

dist: - precise

[westonruter]

Seems like then the best permanent fix would be to update the install_tools function to install xmllint if [ -s "$TEMP_DIRECTORY/paths-scope-xml" ], yeah?

See

wp-dev-lib/check-diff.sh

Lines 402 to 403 in bb1ae0b

	# Install PHP tools.
	if [ -s "$TEMP_DIRECTORY/paths-scope-php" ]; then

[westonruter]

@MattGeri see also #249 where precise is now the default. Still, we should support trusty.

[ocean90]

I started with that in ocean90@e7d3849 until I realized that having sudo apt-get there isn't the best idea for local environments. Should this be part of travis.install.sh?

[westonruter]

Yes, that makes sense to me. However, sudo is going to fail on Travis too when running on a containerized environment. So the xmllint installation should be done without sudo, assuming that is possible.

[JDGrimes]

Travis can install it for you, by adding this to .travis.yml:

addons:
  apt:
    packages:
      # Needed for `xmllint`.
      - libxml2-utils

Then sudo isn't required.

[ocean90]

Correct, I tried that yesterday and it's working, see https://travis-ci.org/GlotPress/GlotPress-WP/jobs/282788413#L428 and https://travis-ci.org/GlotPress/GlotPress-WP/jobs/282788413#L700.

The only disadvantage is that there's no apt caching, see travis-ci/travis-ci#5876.

[valendesigns]

I did it like this:

install:
    - sudo apt-get install -y libxml2-utils

But the addons method seems a little more elegant.