Re: [RFC PATCH] gitlab-ci: Switch the 'check-patch' & 'check-dco' jobs to use python-container

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 04/05/2022 11.12, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:36:21PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > The 'check-patch' and 'check-dco' jobs only need Python and git for
> > > checking the patches, so it's not really necessary to use a container
> > > here that has all the other build dependencies installed. By installing
> > > "git" in the python container, we can use this light-weight container
> > > for these jobs instead.
> > 
> > Our python container is far from light-weight....
> > 
> > $ time podman pull registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/qemu/python
> > 
> > real	1m52.717s
> > user	1m32.327s
> > sys	0m19.453s
> > 
> > vs
> > 
> > $ time podman pull python:3.8-alpine
> > 
> > real	0m4.509s
> > user	0m3.780s
> > sys	0m1.052s
> > 
> > 
> > It is quicker to use the alpine python container and then just
> > install 'git' on every job, than it is to use the pre-built
> > qemu python container
> > 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >   Mark as RFC since I'm not sure whether we want to have "git" in
> > >   the python container or not?
> > > 
> > >   .gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml         | 8 ++++----
> > >   tests/docker/dockerfiles/python.docker | 1 +
> > >   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> > > index 5e955540d3..0e080bd0a0 100644
> > > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> > > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml
> > > @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> > >   check-patch:
> > >     stage: build
> > > -  image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/centos8:latest
> > > +  image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/python:latest
> > >     needs:
> > > -    job: amd64-centos8-container
> > > +    job: python-container
> > >     script:
> > >       - .gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py
> > >     variables:
> > > @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ check-patch:
> > >   check-dco:
> > >     stage: build
> > > -  image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/centos8:latest
> > > +  image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/python:latest
> > >     needs:
> > > -    job: amd64-centos8-container
> > > +    job: python-container
> > >     script: .gitlab-ci.d/check-dco.py
> > >     variables:
> > >       GIT_DEPTH: 1000
> > 
> > IOW this is sufficient:
> > 
> >    image: python:3.8-alpine
> >    needs: []
> >    before_script:
> >      - apk update
> >      - apk add git
> >    script: ./gitlab-ci.d/check-dco.py
> > 
> > 
> > I expect the same would work for check-patch.py container
> 
> ... or would it make sense to switch tests/docker/dockerfiles/python.docker
> to use alpine instead of fedora?

That could work too

With regards,
Daniel
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