[rdo-list] Trunk and continuous integration: can we use qemu-kvm from buildlogs ("-testing") ?

[Javier Pena]

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:44 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Right now, delorean-deps.repo [1] provides the "stable"
> > repository/release of qemu-kvm [2].
> >
> > Going back, we can't really find if it was a conscious decision to use
> > the stable release than the one from "-testing".
> > I'm convinced it'd make sense to switch delorean-deps.repo to use
> > buildlogs (so qemu-kvm tagged "testing") in the context where we are
> > testing things.
> >
> 
> You mean changing delorean-deps.repo in trunk.rdoproject.org?, that
> will impact all jobs using rdo trunk repos
> 
> > This way, we could potentially catch issues before they land in the
> > stable repositories.
> > If there's no objections, we could do this early next week.
> >
> > What do you think ?
> >
> 
> I don't think having two moving targets in the same set of tests, a
> problem in qemu-kvm will block all pipelines.
> 

Well, we've been broken the other way around actually (having a newer libvirt in base that required a newer qemu-kvm we didn't have in mirror.centos.org yet), so I'd rather have an early breakage that we could work around than a late one.

Javier

> If we want to test kvm in testing releases (what i agree), i think the
> best way is to create a new pipeline testing master/current-passed-ci
> + kvm testing repos, not using testing repo in all jobs.
> 
> Anyway, given the rest of responses, it seems i'm alone on this... :)
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> >
> > [1]: https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos7-master/delorean-deps.repo
> > [2]: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/$basearch/kvm-common/
> >
> > David Moreau Simard
> > Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
> >
> > dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
> >
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