Re: [PATCH-for-5.2 1/2] gitlab-ci: Avoid running the OpenSBI job when not necessary

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 11/10/20 3:33 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> $SUBJECT seems to contradict the comment message and code.
> 
> Shouldn't it say  "always run the OpenSBI job"  since you're
> removing all the conditional logic ?

Sorry, bad copy/paste from previous patch.

> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:16:05PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> The OpenSBI jobs use the 'changes' keyword, which "makes it
>> possible to define if a job should be created based on files
>> modified by a Git push event." (see [*]). This keyword comes
>> with a warning:
>>
>>   Caution:
>>
>>     In pipelines with sources other than the three above
>>     changes can’t determine if a given file is new or old
>>     and always returns true."
>>
>> In commit 922febe2af we moved the YAML config file from the
>> repository root directory to the .gitlab-ci.d/ directory.
>>
>> We didn't respect the previous warning and disabled the
>> 'changes' filter rule, as the files are now in a (directory)
>> three above the YAML config file.
>>
>> As this job doesn't take much (less than 1min), run it by
>> default.
>>
>> [*] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlychangesexceptchanges
>>
>> Fixes: 922febe2af ("Move edk2 and opensbi YAML files to .gitlab-ci.d folder")
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  .gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml | 13 -------------
>>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml
>> index 5b13047e2ab..b1fa244fda4 100644
>> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml
>> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml
>> @@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
>>  docker-opensbi:
>>   stage: containers
>> - rules: # Only run this job when the Dockerfile is modified
>> - - changes:
>> -   - .gitlab-ci.d/opensbi.yml
>> -   - .gitlab-ci.d/opensbi/Dockerfile
>> -   when: always
>>   image: docker:19.03.1
>>   services:
>>   - docker:19.03.1-dind
>> @@ -25,14 +20,6 @@ docker-opensbi:
>>  
>>  build-opensbi:
>>   stage: build
>> - rules: # Only run this job when ...
>> - - changes: # ... roms/opensbi/ is modified (submodule updated)
>> -   - roms/opensbi/*
>> -   when: always
>> - - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^opensbi/' # or the branch/tag starts with 'opensbi'
>> -   when: always
>> - - if: '$CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE =~ /opensbi/i' # or last commit description contains 'OpenSBI'
>> -   when: always
>>   artifacts:
>>     paths: # 'artifacts.zip' will contains the following files:
>>     - pc-bios/opensbi-riscv32-generic-fw_dynamic.bin
>> -- 
>> 2.26.2
>>
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
>