On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 09:07:34AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > 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 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.
BTW, I don't mean this to be a criticism of Debian. We've seen the same kind of instability with all the other non-released distros (Fedora Rawhide, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Alpine Edge) in libvirt CI, such that we've finally set all of them non-gating across all our CI deployments. They're all good to have in CI as a smoke test to identify possible problems coming towards you in the next stable release, but false failures have to be expected. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
