Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.2] .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml: Promote NetBSD job as gating

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@gorilla.13thmonkey.org>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 10:12:38PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 06:15:51PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 09/11/2023 17.58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 04:35:56PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
...
> > You're right, Daniel. Seems like both, the Cirrus netbsd and the openbsd job
> > are currently broken and only output some help text instead of compiling
> > QEMU:
> > 
> >  https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu/-/jobs/5497861511#L6834
> > 
> > ... that's why the finish so fast.
> > 
> > IIRC last time I've seen them "working", they were running into the 80
> > minute timeout again.
> > 
> > So the netbsd and openbsd job are indeed not very useful anymore. I think we
> > should rather remove them and add a proper job via our own custom
> > KVM-capable runners instead.
> 
> Even though I am a co-maintainer of the NetBSD support for Qemu I am not quite
> sure what testcase this is. Is this a regression test of installing NetBSD
> from an ISO? That somehow times out? Where can I find the resulting console
> output? Maybe the installer changed?

Re-reading the thread its about compiling Qemu on NetBSD. Doh. I am a novice
to the test kit you use so please forgive me if I don't make sense. Am I right
that it does install NetBSD OK, it then comes up and then tries to compile
Qemu on it but it fails due to some Python errors in the test script? Does it
use NetBSDs pkgsrc with its patches or has it its own method of dealing with
them?

With regards,
Reinoud