Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/kexec: bump to version 2.0.29

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Julien,

On Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:34:50 +0200
Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr> wrote:

> Yes, I was aware of this functionality (from the manual). I quickly
> tried it a while back, and was not able to make it work. At that time,
> I thought this CI was limited to paid users, or gitlab users having
> their own runners (which I don't have), or Buildroot maintainers
> (i.e. project members).
> 
> Reading your explanation here, and reading again the Buildroot
> documentation at:
> https://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#_runtime_tests_and_gitlab_ci
> I now understand I should be able start CI jobs on my own.
> 
> I tested again (a bit harder this time) with this Kexec runtime test
> as you described. After resolving few (GitLab) issues I was finally
> able to make it work. For example:
> https://gitlab.com/jolivain/buildroot/-/jobs/7455292795

Nice!

> I will propose some Buildroot documentation updates. I hope this
> will help more users to use this nice feature. Specifically:
> 
> - write explicitly this CI works with a "Free" gitlab user account.
> 
> - add a note to make sure "GitLab Instance Runners" are enabled
>    in the forked project. In my case, they were disabled.
> 
> - add a note about setting the job timeout. In my case, it was
>    set to "1h", which was too short in many cases. Right now, I've
>    set 4h for simple tests.
> 
> - document all the other recognized branch name formats by the script:
> https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2024.05.1/support/scripts/generate-gitlab-ci-yml?ref_type=tags#L60

Such updates to the documentation would definitely be welcome for sure!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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