On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:35:59AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 27/09/2022 23.21, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 04:45:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 07:35:13PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > ... > > > > > Alright, .gitlab-ci.yml is produced and the pipeline succeeds. > > > > > However, the question still remains, where do we keep the generated > > > > > artifacts? > > > > > > > > The following link will always reflect the published artifacts from > > > > the most recently fully successful CI pipeline, on the 'qemu-bits' > > > > branch, and 'qemu-bits-build' CI job: > > > > > > > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/biosbits-bits/-/jobs/artifacts/qemu-bits/download?job=qemu-bits-build > > > > > > > > Tweak as needed if you push the CI to master branch instead. This > > > > link can be considered the permanent home of the artifact. I'd just > > > > suggest that the QEMU job automatically skip if it fails to download > > > > the artifact, as occassionally transient infra errors can impact > > > > it. > > > > > > This just means once we change the test old qemu source can no longer use > > > it. > > > Why is this a good idea? Are we so short on disk space? I thought CPU > > > is the limiting factor? > > > > FYI, we'll soon be short on disk space, gitlab plans to introduce storage > > limits: > > > > https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-paid-storage-transfer/ > > That's the key reason I prefer the binary as CI artifact rather than > in Git. Once checked into git, you can never reclaim that storage > usage, as the git repo is append only, only option is to delete the > repo and recreate. With CI artifacts we can control exactly which > binaries consume storage quota at any time. > > With regards, > Daniel
I agree binaries in git are a bit of a hack. But I also feel managing files as part of a test tool is a hack too, it's an SCM issue. How about e.g. git-lfs? Seems to be reasonably well supported on gitlab. There's also gitlab but that seems to be older. > -- > |: 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 :|