Re: [Qemu-devel] Update *BSD images with gnu-sed and bash (was: [PATCH 4/6] cirrus / travis: Add gnu-sed and bash for macOS and FreeBSD)

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 07/05/2019 10.32, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> D'oh! Does anybody know what are the correct steps to update these images?
>>>
>>> (1) make the OPENBSD subsystem maintainer care
>>>
>>> (2) update <https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD>
>>>
>>> (3) download the image from download.patchew.org, boot it and update it
>>>
>>> (4) upload the image to download.patchew.org
>>>
>>> (5) update the "tests/vm/openbsd" script in the QEMU tree in sync
>>> (checksums, commands etc)
>>
>>  Ed, Li-Wen,
>>
>> any chance you could help with updating the FreeBSD image and the
>> tests/vm/freebsd script, so that we get more test covarage here?
>>
>>  Kamil,
>>
>> could you maybe help with the NetBSD image and the tests/vm/netbsd script?
>>
>>  Brad,
>>
>> could you please help with the OpenBSD image and the tests/vm/openbsd
>> script?
>>
>> I think it would also be good to update the images to the latest
>> released versions, too...
> 
> FYI:  I'm working on revamping the tests/vm setup, creating the images
> scripted on the developer machine.  That'll take download.patchew.org
> out of the loop and makes adding packages as easy as patching a docker
> script.

Cool, that sounds like the best solution, indeed!

 Thanks,
  Thomas