Using shell scripts rather than inlining shell commands to YAML feels more
natural, more readable, and will keep all different variations of execution
consistent. Essentially the only disadvantage is that we won't see each command
listed one-by-one in gitlab's log output (unless we set -x that is), but given
that shell would complain if something was wrong with the script, it's fairly
easy to identify the problem.

Here's a test pipeline after the change:
https://gitlab.com/eskultety/libvirt/-/pipelines/759277200

Since v1:
- 3/7 - reworded commit message as requested
- 4/7 was dropped
- point the SCRATCH_DIR to /var/tmp instead of /tmp to not be limited by the
size of ramdisk mounted in there

Erik Skultety (8):
  syntax-check: Drop the shell's 'check for minus' rule
  ci: Move the SCRATCH_DIR from /tmp
  ci: integration: Extract several hidden job definitions to a script
  ci: integration: Drop the 'install-deps' hidden job and reference
  ci: integration-template: Drop the '-lt Fedora 35' check
  ci: integration.sh: Add/Rewrite/Reformat commentaries
  ci: integration.sh: Replace 'test' with '[' operator
  ci: integration.sh: Define the SCRATCH_DIR variable for local
    execution

 build-aux/syntax-check.mk   |  9 --------
 ci/integration-template.yml | 44 +++--------------------------------
 ci/integration.sh           | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ci/integration.sh

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2.39.1

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:26:48AM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> Using shell scripts rather than inlining shell commands to YAML feels more
> natural, more readable, and will keep all different variations of execution
> consistent. Essentially the only disadvantage is that we won't see each command
> listed one-by-one in gitlab's log output (unless we set -x that is), but given
> that shell would complain if something was wrong with the script, it's fairly
> easy to identify the problem.
> 
> Here's a test pipeline after the change:
> https://gitlab.com/eskultety/libvirt/-/pipelines/759277200
> 
> Since v1:
> - 3/7 - reworded commit message as requested
> - 4/7 was dropped
> - point the SCRATCH_DIR to /var/tmp instead of /tmp to not be limited by the
> size of ramdisk mounted in there

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