Re: [PATCH v2] Re-enable riscv64-debian-cross-container (debian riscv64 is finally usable again!)

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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.

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 <mjt@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
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