Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] gitlab-ci: Step in to maintain the fedora-i386-cross runner

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 06:52:31PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 12/14/20 1:35 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 11/12/2020 18.17, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >> As I am interested in using the runner based on the fedora-i386-cross
> >> docker image, add a smoke test job to be sure this image is usable,
> >> and set the JOB_MAINTAINER_NAME/JOB_MAINTAINER_EMAIL variables so
> >> other developers can contact me in case there is a problem with the
> >> public runner based on this image.
> >>
> >> We will eventually send a patch to make script/checkpatch.pl parse
> >> the Gitlab YAML jobs to understand the JOB_MAINTAINER_NAME and
> >> JOB_MAINTAINER_EMAIL variables.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> >> index bd6473a75a7..864cad7cec5 100644
> >> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> >> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> >> @@ -39,6 +39,13 @@
> >>        ../configure --enable-werror $QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS --disable-system
> >>      - make -j$(expr $(nproc) + 1) all check-build
> >>  
> >> +.cross_sanity_check_job:
> >> +  stage: build
> >> +  image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/$IMAGE:latest
> >> +  timeout: 3m
> >> +  script:
> >> +    - /bin/true
> > 
> > I guess it makes more sense if I respin my patch here instead:
> > 
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg762919.html
> > 
> > ?
> 
> I think these are different. The idea of testing /bin/true is to be
> able to make the distinction between a broken runner and a broken
> test.

I don't see any point in this job.  /bin/true will always succeeed
if we've successfully created the container image if the container
build job.


Regards,
Daniel
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