Re: [PULL 0/4] OVMF patches for 2021-07-12

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

On 7/13/21 1:16 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:25:21AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 16:02, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The following changes since commit bd38ae26cea0d1d6a97f930248df149204c210a2:
>>>
>>>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/rth-gitlab/tags/pull-tcg-20210710' into staging (2021-07-12 11:02:39 +0100)
>>>
>>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>>
>>>   https://github.com/philmd/qemu.git tags/fw-edk2-20210712
>>>
>>> for you to fetch changes up to d1e79210457323b225c369fa00e97577e0d0da95:
>>>
>>>   MAINTAINERS: remove Laszlo Ersek's entries (2021-07-12 16:55:23 +0200)
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Patches related to EDK2/OVMF
>>>
>>> - MAINTAINERS: remove Laszlo Ersek's entries
>>> - Introduce X86_FW_OVMF Kconfig symbol
>>> - pc_system_ovmf_table_find: Assert that flash was parsed, document
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> So, even though this pullreq doesn't seem to be changing gitlab CI
>> config, I get a "yaml invalid" failure in the pipeline:
>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/pipelines/335995843
>>
>> "'build-edk2' job needs 'docker-edk2' job but it was not added to the pipeline"
>>
>> Any ideas what that's about?
> 
> The rules for these two jobs are not compatible with the depedency
> declared between them.
> 
> The docker-edk2 job is set to exist only when edk2.yml or Dockerfile
> are changed:
> 
>  docker-edk2:
>    stage: containers
>    rules: # Only run this job when the Dockerfile is modified
>    - changes:
>      - .gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml
>      - .gitlab-ci.d/edk2/Dockerfile
>      when: always
> 
> 
> The build-edk2 job is set to exist based on a wide variety of
> changes
> 
>  build-edk2:
>    stage: build
>    needs: ['docker-edk2']
>    rules: # Only run this job when ...
>    - changes: # ... roms/edk2/ is modified (submodule updated)
>      - roms/edk2/*
>      when: always
>    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^edk2/' # or the branch/tag starts with 'edk2'
>      when: always
>    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE =~ /edk2/i' # or last commit description contains 'EDK2'
>      when: always
> 
> 
> If those jobs were independant those different sets of conditions
> would be ok.  The build-edk2 job, however, has a 'needs' clause
> adding a depdancy on 'docker-edk2'.
> 
> Given this dependancy, in *EVERY* scenario were 'build-edk2' job
> exists, the 'docker-edk2' job *MUST* also exist. This isn't the
> case, hence the failed pipeline.
> 
> This can be fixed by taking the 'rules' from 'build-edk2' and
> also applying them to 'docker-edk2'.

Thank you for figuring the problem and clearly explaining it!

Phil.