From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: "Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] docker: remove unused debian-sid and debian-ports
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 22:19:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7ayzmwl.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e77307-d386-7ea1-3e1d-b3970bf25b8e@redhat.com>
John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> On 9/20/19 12:20 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 9/20/19 4:49 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> On 9/20/19 2:14 AM, John Snow wrote:
>>>>> These are listed as "partial" images, but have no user.
>>>>> Remove them.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I have WiP users from them. I could restore this content when they
>>>> are ready... Ports is the base of deprecated Debian archs. On the other
>>>> side Sid is the base for edge development I use from time to time to
>>>> test latest gcc/binutils.
>>>> I'll try to find time to raise WiP branches to PoC.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that's the right thing to do. Right now, the docker tests
>>> directory has a lot of stale entries and unusable tests. That might be
>>> fine for the people working on it, but it makes it hard to understand
>>> and use for those of us who only occasionally traipse into the directory.
>>>
>>> I'm removing all references to python2 -- but if there's no way for me
>>> to test debian-sid and debian-ports, I can't test changes I need to make
>>> to these "partial images", so they should be removed until they are
>>> consumable.
>>>
>>> While I am sympathetic to the idea of having a library of partial images
>>> to use for future tests, they're prone to rot if there's no way to
>>> exercise them in-tree.
>>
>> Don't forget some "partial" images are only used for building TCG tests
>> - we want to keep them. But as git is forever I can drop the sid/ports
>> stuff for now until Phillipe has something to use them again.
>>
>
> Oh, where? Is that defined within the tests/docker/Makefile.include or
> in the TCG tree where I have not gone spelunking before?
Now they are selected by tests/tcg/configure.sh but generally they
DISTRO-ARCH-cross images.
>
> --js
--
Alex Bennée
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-20 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 0:14 [PATCH 0/3] docker: misc cleanups John Snow
2019-09-20 0:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] docker: remove 'deprecated' image definitions John Snow
2019-09-20 0:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] docker: remove debian8-mxe definitions John Snow
2019-09-20 0:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] docker: remove unused debian-sid and debian-ports John Snow
2019-09-20 8:49 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-09-20 16:10 ` John Snow
2019-09-20 16:20 ` Alex Bennée
2019-09-20 16:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-09-20 16:28 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-09-20 17:34 ` John Snow
2019-09-20 16:30 ` Alex Bennée
2019-09-20 17:24 ` John Snow
2019-09-20 21:19 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2019-09-20 21:32 ` John Snow
2019-09-21 9:53 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-09-23 17:22 ` John Snow
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