From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: fam@euphon.net, berrange@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
f4bug@amsat.org, stefanha@redhat.com, crosa@redhat.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, aurelien@aurel32.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/devel: update the container based tests
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:14:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ki470zp.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a28b2c23-418b-83f7-c045-e82a11b95ae3@redhat.com>
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 - don't refer to out-of-date min-glib image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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 10:14 [PATCH v2 0/6] testing/next (meson check-tcg, fedora bump, docs) Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] meson.build: expose TCG cross compiler information in summary Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] docker: Bump Fedora images to release 33 Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] tests/acceptance: allow a "graceful" failing for virtio-gpu test Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 15:44 ` Probing Meson for build configurations (was: [PATCH v2 3/6] tests/acceptance: allow a "graceful" failing for virtio-gpu test) Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
2021-02-22 16:05 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/devel: expand on use of containers to build tests Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 11:39 ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/devel: update the container based tests Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 11:46 ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-22 12:14 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2021-02-22 12:15 ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-22 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] docs/devel: add forward reference to check-tcg Alex Bennée
2021-02-22 11:36 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 12:16 ` Thomas Huth
2021-02-24 3:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] testing/next (meson check-tcg, fedora bump, docs) Richard Henderson
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