Re: [PATCH] ci: update Cirrus-CI image to FreeBSD 13.0

[Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:53 PM Philippe Blain
<levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Carlo,
>
> Le 2022-05-24 à 15:20, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón a écrit :

> > did you try to use 12.3 which should be supported for a little longer?
>
> Yes, I tested 12.3 and it also works. We could switch to that and
> keep 13.0 for later.

This seems like the better option overall; feel free to include
whatever footer you decide to use with my name in your next reroll.

> >> The FreeBSD image we use is FreeBSD 12.2, which is unsupported since
> >> March 31st, 2022 [1]. Switching to a supported version, 13.0,
> >> makes this error disappear [2].
> >
> > I think 13.1 might be better, since with this change we are also implicitly
> > making a move to say that we don't really care about the old (but still
> > supported) maintenance branch, but will only look at the "latest" version
> > instead.
>
> I agree with your reasoning, but 13.1 was not listed in the list of images on Cirrus-CI [1]. They
> say they support all Google Compute Engine images, but I could not find a public list
> of these images ([2] seems to be it but I don't want to create an account just
> to see a list!).

Good point; BTW I'd noticed before that the easiest way is to "try it"
since the Cirrus documentation seems to lag behind for a little while,
and so as you can
see in this[0] run, it is working fine as well.

[0] https://github.com/carenas/git/runs/6584764718
> [1] https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/FreeBSD/
> [2] https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/images