Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/devel: update the container based tests

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 22/02/2021 11.14, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This section has grown a little stale so clean-up the language and
>> examples for current usage:
>> 
>>    - refer to containers at the top
>>    - mention podman can also be used
>>    - add podman prerequisites section
>>    - move to using "docker-help" for online help
>>    - mention the registry and it's purpose
>>    - don't refer to out-of-date min-glib image
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   docs/devel/testing.rst | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>   1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> [...]
>>   .. code::
>>   
>> -  make docker-test-build@min-glib
>> +  make docker-test-build@centos7
>>   
>> -This will create a container instance using the ``min-glib`` image (the image
>> +This will create a container instance using the ``centos7`` image (the image
>>   is downloaded and initialized automatically), in which the ``test-build`` job
>>   is executed.
>
> We're going to drop support for CentOS 7 in three months (May) ... so maybe 
> it makes more sense to directly use centos8 or another long-term distro here?
>
>> +Registry
>> +--------
>> +
>> +The QEMU project has a container registry hosted by GitLab at
>> +``registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu`` which will automatically be
>> +used to pull in pre-built layers. This avoids unnecessary strain on
>> +the distro archives created by multiple developers running the same
>> +container build steps over and over again. This can be overridden
>> +locally by using the ``NOCACHE`` build option:
>
> Thanks a lot for adding the information!
>
>   Thomas

Is that a r-b if I change to centos8?

-- 
Alex Bennée