Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] OSSTEST: introduce a raisin build test

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Stefano Stabellini
<stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 12:46 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> > > Would a separate clone of the same raisin version with some sort of
>> > > "dist" directory transported over be sufficient and supportable? Or are
>> > > raisin's outputs not in one place and easily transportable?
>> > >
>> > > i.e. today build-$ARCH-libvirt picks up the dist.tar.gz files from the
>> > > corresponding build-$ARCH, unpacks them and asks libvirt to build
>> > > against that tree.
>> >
>> > Moving the dist directory over should work, although I have never tested
>> > this configuration.
>>
>> Would you be willing to support this as a requirement going forward?
>
> Yeah, I think it is OK
>
>> I assume that it is not also necessary to reclone all the trees for the
>> preexisting components, just the new ones?
>
> Only if the user asks for a components to be built, the corresponding
> tree is cloned.

Won't the problem here be disentangling the stuff installed in dist/
(or whatever it's called) from the things we want to rebuild vs the
things we want to change?

I.e., ideally if you want to build just xen.git, you want dist/ to
contain the output of the previous build of seabios, qemut, qemuu, &c,
but *not* the output of previous xen.git builds (or, ideally, the
output of previous libvirt, pvgrub, or stubdom builds).  Just tar and
untarr'ing dist/ after a full build won't accomplish that.

Would it make sense to do some sort of "save snapshot" functionality
that would tar up the dist/ before building a particular component,
such that it could be used later?  Sort of a "stage 2*" for raisin.
:-)

 -George

* Referring to Gentoo.  Not sure the comparison is 100% accurate.

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