Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH] Drop Xen 4.5 and earlier

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 01.05.19 at 12:46, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> These releases are out of security support.  They are known not to
> build on Debian stretch, which is what we are using, and we do not
> intend to ever update them to fix that.
> 
> Xen 4.6 is also out of security support but we want osstest to be able
> to continue to build it so that we can test 4.6->4.7 migration, for
> the purposes of testing Xen 4.7, which is still supported right now.
> 
> So we have recently applied some build fixes to the 4.6 tree, and for
> now we retain 4.6 in osstest so that build fixes applied to
> staging-4.6 can propagate to stable-4.6.
> 
> CC: committers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In case it matters
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

However, ...

> --- a/cr-for-branches
> +++ b/cr-for-branches
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ scriptoptions="$1"; shift
>  LOGFILE=tmp/cr-for-branches.log
>  export LOGFILE
>  
> -: ${BRANCHES:=osstest xen-4.0-testing xen-4.1-testing xen-4.2-testing 
> xen-4.3-testing xen-4.4-testing xen-4.5-testing xen-4.6-testing 
> xen-4.7-testing 
> xen-4.8-testing xen-4.9-testing xen-4.10-testing xen-4.11-testing 
> xen-4.12-testing 
> xen-unstable qemu-mainline qemu-upstream-unstable qemu-upstream-4.2-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.3-testing qemu-upstream-4.4-testing qemu-upstream-4.5-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.6-testing qemu-upstream-4.7-testing qemu-upstream-4.8-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.9-testing qemu-upstream-4.10-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.11-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.12-testing linux-linus linux-4.19 linux-4.14 linux-4.9 
> linux-4.4 
> linux-4.1 linux-3.18 linux-3.16 linux-3.14 linux-3.10 linux-3.4 linux-arm-xen 
> seabios 
> ovmf xtf ${EXTRA_BRANCHES}}
> +: ${BRANCHES:=osstest xen-4.6-testing xen-4.7-testing xen-4.8-testing 
> xen-4.9-testing xen-4.10-testing xen-4.11-testing xen-4.12-testing 
> xen-unstable 
> qemu-mainline qemu-upstream-unstable qemu-upstream-4.6-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.7-testing qemu-upstream-4.8-testing qemu-upstream-4.9-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.10-testing qemu-upstream-4.11-testing 
> qemu-upstream-4.12-testing 
> linux-linus linux-4.19 linux-4.14 linux-4.9 linux-4.4 linux-4.1 linux-3.18 
> linux-3.16 linux-3.14 linux-3.10 linux-3.4 linux-arm-xen seabios ovmf xtf 
> ${EXTRA_BRANCHES}}

... aren't the older Linux branches then in similar need of pruning?
Seeing that for 32-bit Arm you can't even build mainline Linux with
the newer compiler, I doubt at least the pretty old ones here have
any chance of building cleanly.

Jan



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