Re: [PATCH 3/3] docker: remove unused debian-sid and debian-ports

From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] docker: remove unused debian-sid and debian-ports
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:30:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blvfylpd.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77355885-6422-5a6a-bd32-e3871e35213e@redhat.com>

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:

> On 9/20/19 6:20 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.
>
> For Sid I have this case:

Does it really need sid to build binutils/gcc?
>
> -- >8 --
> #
> # Docker Renesas RX cross-compiler target
> #
> # This docker target builds on the debian Sid base image.
> #
> # Copyright (c) 2019 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> #
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> #
> FROM qemu:debian-sid
>
> MAINTAINER Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
>
> RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive eatmydata \
>     apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
>         wget
> RUN wget -qO - https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/binutils/binutils-2.32.tar.xz \
>     | tar -C /usr/src -xJf - && \
>     cd /usr/src/binutils-2.32 && \
>         CFLAGS=-w \
>         ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls
> --target=rx-unknown-linux && \
>         make && make install && \
>         rm -rf /usr/src/binutils-2.32
>
> RUN git clone -b rx-trunk http://pf.osdn.net/gitroot/y/ys/ysato/gcc.git \
>     /usr/src/gcc
>
> RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive eatmydata \
>     apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
>         libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev
>
> RUN cd /usr/src/gcc && \
>     CPPFLAGS=-w \
>     ./configure --target=rx-unknown-linux \
>         --prefix=/usr --disable-nls \
>         --enable-languages=c --disable-shared \
>         --disable-threads --with-uclibc \
>         --disable-libssp --disable-libquadmath \
>         --disable-libgomp --disable-libatomic && \
>     make && make install && \
>     rm -rf /usr/src/gcc
>
> # This image isn't designed for building QEMU but building tests
> ENV QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS --disable-system --disable-user
> ---

--
Alex Bennée