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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] OSSTEST: introduce a raisin build test



On Tue, 12 May 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 12:20 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 
> > > We currently have build jobs for both normal and the XSM case.
> > > Duplicating the raisin jobs is also going to duplicate the build for
> > > everything else it builds, which might be wasteful?
> > 
> > We could disable the raisin build if [ enable_xsm = "true" ] ?
> 
> That isn't necessary now. I was thinking about the future when we may
> want to switch to raisin for building everything (i.e. removing the
> current build jobs).
> 
> > > More generally this now ties everything together into one build job.
> > > Currently while bisecting osstest can try and reuse e.g. the xen job
> > > with a different libvirt build, which saves some time. I think this is
> > > an unavoidable consequence of how raisin is designed to work and we'll
> > > just have to suck it up.
> > 
> > It is possible to just build xen first and libvirt later, as long as you
> > reuse the same raisin environment, or you install xen on the system
> > first.
> 
> I don't think we can install Xen, since this will be a potentially
> shared build host.
> 
> > > The only alternative I can see would be for raisin to have an
> > > "incremental" mode where it can be pointed at the results of a previous
> > > raisin build and build additional components based on that. I suspect
> > > you don't want this complexity in raisin though.
> > 
> > I don't want to support the case where raisin is asked to build a
> > component based on a previous raisin build at an alternative location.
> > But building Xen first, then going back to the same raisin directory and
> > building libvirt later is fine.
> 
> Would a separate clone of the same raisin version with some sort of
> "dist" directory transported over be sufficient and supportable? Or are
> raisin's outputs not in one place and easily transportable?
>
> i.e. today build-$ARCH-libvirt picks up the dist.tar.gz files from the
> corresponding build-$ARCH, unpacks them and asks libvirt to build
> against that tree.

Moving the dist directory over should work, although I have never tested
this configuration.

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