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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH for 2.10 34/35] docker: add debian 'bleeding
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH for 2.10 34/35] docker: add debian 'bleeding' image with gcc7 and clang5 |
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:05:31 +0100 |
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:
> On 07/25/2017 11:15 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> +++ b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-bleeding-dev.docker
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
>>> +#
>>> +# Docker x86_64 bleeding image
>>> +#
>>> +# This docker target builds on the debian unstable base image. Further
>>> +# libraries which are not widely available are installed by hand.
>>> +#
>>
>> Not for 2.10 please.
>
> Surely not ;) Also unlikely to get merged in mainline...
>
> [...]
>> There are a lot of moving parts basing this in debian unstable and
>> compiling extra bleeding edge stuff. What does this buy that the clang
>> and toolchain builds in Travis don't already cover?
>
> Bleeding is bleeding :) This is an implicit No Warranty clause...
> It might trigger something useful or give you slow death.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable
> "If you are a hardcore developer or tester you should use this release."
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch10.en.html#s10.1.3
> "you should not use Debian's unstable branch for production-level systems"
Quite but from a QEMU point of view these are being used for CI loops
and proving a known state of something for users to test on. As I said
in reply elsewhere I think to get the benefit of recent Clang and GCCs
it would be best to base of some sort of stable base.
--
Alex Bennée
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.10 32/35] timer/pxa2xx: silent warning about out-of-bound memory access, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH for 2.10 35/35] script to run docker image, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2017/07/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.10 00/35] fix bugs reported by Clang Static Analyzer, Peter Maydell, 2017/07/24