Re: [PATCH] ci: move external build environment setups to CentOS Stream 9

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 05:03:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 12/04/2024 12.37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > RHEL 9 (and thus also the derivatives) are available since two years
> > now, so according to QEMU's support policy, we can drop the active
> > support for the previous major version 8 now.
> > 
> > Thus upgrade our CentOS Stream build environment playbooks to major
> > version 9 now.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .../stream/{8 => 9}/build-environment.yml     | 31 ++++++-------
> >   .../stream/{8 => 9}/x86_64/configure          |  4 +-
> >   .../stream/{8 => 9}/x86_64/test-avocado       |  0
> >   scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml        | 44 +++++++------------
> >   4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> >   rename scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/{8 => 9}/build-environment.yml (75%)
> >   rename scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/{8 => 9}/x86_64/configure (98%)
> >   rename scripts/ci/org.centos/stream/{8 => 9}/x86_64/test-avocado (100%)
> 
>  Hi Paolo!
> 
> Not sure whether you've seen my busted pull request, but anyway: It seems
> like this was not enough to update the custom runner. You also need to
> update .gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners/centos-stream-8-x86_64.yml for this.
> 
> By the way, who has access to the s390x custom runner and could update it to
> Ubuntu 22.04 now? It still seems to work with 20.04 which will be out of
> support from the QEMU POV next week...

I rather wish that the custom runners were all using podman/docker,
so we could have the jobs just build containers for the envs, like
we do on shared runners, and/or on the Azure runners. That way we're
not beholden to an admin to manually update OS intsalls.

With regards,
Daniel
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