Major - P3 We are having issues with the RHEL8 PPC platform, see WT-8981. For now, we need to disable the tests until the underlying issue is resolved.
We can use the same strategy as we did on mongodb-5.0 and use the activate field in evergreen under the variant definition, see here:
diff --git a/test/evergreen.yml b/test/evergreen.yml index dbdab1afb..3ef0b872b 100755 --- a/test/evergreen.yml +++ b/test/evergreen.yml @@ -4231,6 +4231,8 @@ buildvariants: - name: rhel8-ppc display_name: "~ RHEL8 PPC" + # FIXME-WT-8981 + activate: false run_on: - rhel81-power8-small batchtime: 120 # 2 hours