Re: [PATCH v3 22/24] gitlab: move the majority of artefact handling to a template

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 28/2/23 20:06, Alex Bennée wrote:
> To avoid lots of copy and paste lets deal with artefacts in a
> template. This way we can filter out most of the pre-binary object and
> library files we no longer need as we have the final binaries.
> 
> build-system-alpine also saved .git-submodule-status so for simplicity
> we bring that into the template as well.
> 
> As an example the build-system-ubuntu artefacts before this patch
> where around 1.3 GB, after dropping the object files it comes to 970
> MB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml | 16 ++++++
>   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml          | 81 +++++++++++------------------
>   2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml
> index cb96b55c3f..a6cfe9be97 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml
> @@ -25,6 +25,22 @@
>           make -j"$JOBS" $MAKE_CHECK_ARGS ;
>         fi
>   
> +# We jump some hoops in common_test_job_template to avoid
> +# rebuilding all the object files we skip in the artifacts
> +.native_build_artifact_template:
> +  artifacts:
> +    expire_in: 2 days
> +    paths:
> +      - build
> +      - .git-submodule-status
> +    exclude:
> +      - build/**/*.p
> +      - build/**/*.a.p
> +      - build/**/*.fa.p
> +      - build/**/*.c.o
> +      - build/**/*.c.o.d
> +      - build/**/*.fa
> +
>   .common_test_job_template:
>     extends: .base_job_template
>     stage: test
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> index 43f9e4a81d..44b8275299 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ include:
>     - local: '/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml'
>   
>   build-system-alpine:
> -  extends: .native_build_job_template
> +  extends:
> +    - .native_build_job_template
> +    - .native_build_artifact_template

I'm confused... Apparently this doesn't work:
https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/jobs/3847747681/artifacts/browse