Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes: > On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 10:16:34AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Revert "gitlab-ci: Disable the riscv64-debian-cross-container by default" >> This reverts commit f51f90c65ed7706c3c4f7a889ce3d6b7ab75ef6a. >> >> riscv64 in debian has been non-functioning for almost a year, after the >> architecture has been promoted to release architecture
is this for trixie or the next release? >> and all binary >> packages started to be re-built, making the port not >> multi-arch-co-installable >> for a long time (in debian, multi-arch packages must be of the same version, >> but when a package is rebuilt on one architecture it gets a version bump >> too). >> Later on, debiah had a long time64_t transition which made sid unusable for >> quite some time too. Both such events happens in debian very rarely (like, >> once in 10 years or so - for example, previous big transition like that was >> libc5 => libc6 transition). Now both of these are finished (where qemu is >> concerned anyway). >> >> Hopefully debian unstable wont be very unstable. At the very least it is >> better to have sporadic CI failures here than no riscv64 coverage at all. > > IME of running Debian sid in CI pipelines for libvirt, it is > way too unstable to be used as a gating job. There are periods > weeks-long when packages fail to install, even for relatively > mainstream arch targets like x86, let alone a new target like > riscv. I think testing can be more stable IME but I agree we still don't want it gating until we have a stable release. > > Running the job by default is sane, but it should not be made > gating until in a formal Debian release IMHO. > >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> >> --- >> v2: drop a TODO comment which turned out to be confused, replacing it >> with the description why debian riscv64 were unusable. >> >> .gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml | 1 - >> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml >> b/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml >> index e3103940a0..dbffed3f21 100644 >> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml >> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml >> @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ riscv64-debian-cross-container: >> allow_failure: true >> variables: >> NAME: debian-riscv64-cross >> - QEMU_JOB_OPTIONAL: 1 >> >> s390x-debian-cross-container: >> extends: .container_job_template >> -- >> 2.39.2 >> >> > > With regards, > Daniel -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
