On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:43:39PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > ci: Also perform `brew upgrade` on MacOS s/MacOS/macOS/ But see below for why we might have to change the subject even further. > @Andrea: if you have a good explanation you'd like to put in the commit message, > I'd me glad to add it (or you can do that as well). Thanks I think something like The base OS image might include outdated contents, and we don't want to get spurious failures caused by bugs that have already been fixed in the respective packages. This is particularly important on macOS, because 'brew install foo' will fail if 'foo' is already installed but outdated: upgrading all packages first ensures we never run into this scenario. would about sum it up. > @@ -443,6 +444,7 @@ x64-macos-11-build: > CIRRUS_VM_IMAGE_SELECTOR: image > CIRRUS_VM_IMAGE_NAME: big-sur-base > UPDATE_COMMAND: brew update > + UPGRADE_COMMAND: brew upgrade I believe you also need to add UPGRADE_COMMAND: pkg upgrade -y to the FreeBSD jobs: I don't think Cirrus CI would appreciate having a completely empty string in the list of commands it's supposed to run. With that squashed in, Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> and thanks for taking care of this :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization