Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] ts-xen-build-prep: Grab newer NASM version, to build OVMF

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anthony PERARD writes ("[OSSTEST PATCH] ts-xen-build-prep: Grab newer NASM 
version, to build OVMF"):
> Recent versions of OVMF now need a version of NASM that is newer
> than the one available on Debian oldstable/buster. They want to use
> NASM 2.15.05 [1], which is available in Debian stable/bullseye. The
> need to use a newer version started with d3febfd9ade3 ("MdePkg:
> Replace Opcode with the corresponding instructions.").
> 
> There is no backport package available but the nasm package from
> Debian Bullseye can easily be installed on Buster as it has few
> dependencies and are already satisfied.

I think this is a quite fine bodge.

> +        target_fetchurl($ho, $nasm_url, "/tmp/$nasm_pkg");
> +        target_install_packages($ho, "/tmp/$nasm_pkg");

I don't think this use of /tmp is very nice.  ts-xen-build-prep runs
with the host all to itself, so I think you can use /root ?

Ian.

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