John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes:
> On 9/20/19 12:20 PM, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> John Snow <js...@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. >> > > Oh, where? Is that defined within the tests/docker/Makefile.include or > in the TCG tree where I have not gone spelunking before? Now they are selected by tests/tcg/configure.sh but generally they DISTRO-ARCH-cross images. > > --js -- Alex Bennée