Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/devel: update the container based tests

[Thomas Huth]

On 22/02/2021 11.14, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This section has grown a little stale so clean-up the language and
> examples for current usage:
>
>    - refer to containers at the top
>    - mention podman can also be used
>    - add podman prerequisites section
>    - move to using "docker-help" for online help
>    - mention the registry and it's purpose
>    - don't refer to out-of-date min-glib image
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>   docs/devel/testing.rst | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
[...]
>   .. code::
>   
> -  make docker-test-build@min-glib
> +  make docker-test-build@centos7
>   
> -This will create a container instance using the ``min-glib`` image (the image
> +This will create a container instance using the ``centos7`` image (the image
>   is downloaded and initialized automatically), in which the ``test-build`` job
>   is executed.

We're going to drop support for CentOS 7 in three months (May) ... so maybe 
it makes more sense to directly use centos8 or another long-term distro here?

> +Registry
> +--------
> +
> +The QEMU project has a container registry hosted by GitLab at
> +``registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu`` which will automatically be
> +used to pull in pre-built layers. This avoids unnecessary strain on
> +the distro archives created by multiple developers running the same
> +container build steps over and over again. This can be overridden
> +locally by using the ``NOCACHE`` build option:

Thanks a lot for adding the information!

 Thomas