Re: [xen-unstable test] 164237: regressions - FAIL

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 19.08.21 14:45, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [xen-unstable test] 164237: regressions - FAIL"):
> > Looks like this didn't sort itself (yet). Do you continue to be
> > convinced that it will, eventually?
> Hooray for explanations in commit messages.
>
> I will (1) drop this test and (2) force push staging in the meantime.
>
> Ian.
>
> commit 6abb2f113025c37e3e5c6bb590b8e5f60c39a861
> Author: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Nov 2 15:15:04 2017 +0000
>
>      make-flight: guest should use jessie to test pvgrub
>      
>      stretch has 64bit feature enabled for ext4, which pvgrub can't cope.
>      We want to continue to test pvgrub, so specify jessie in the guest
>      suite field.
>      
>      A consequence is that this test will test jessie forever.  Eventually
>      jessie will rot so badly that this test fails and then we will no
>      longer be testing pvgrub1.  Hopefully by then no-one will be using it.
>      
>      CC: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>      Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>      Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Does this mean we should de-support pvgrub? Or even remove it?

BTW, I don't see any reason why someone would want to keep using pvgrub
with grub-pv being available...


Juergen

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