Buildbot improvements

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 7/15/21 12:11 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:
>> I take this builbot setup is used along with Fedora to stress both systems,
>> but maybe it would better to use a more stable baseline to make it easier
>> to reproduce.  Either Fedora current or a way to download the required
>> packages/tools.
> 
> I use the published registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora base container.
> We chose to use the latest container for security reasons, to make sure
> we had all the current security errata etc.  It probably won't change
> often enough to be an issue, but it means that I can't guarantee an
> exact reproduction of a given trybot container.
> 
> Even if the containers were published, the trybot's container includes a
> full copy of the glibc git tree at that moment, and we're hoping that
> there will eventually be many trybots - not just mine - so consider the
> cost of moving all that data around vs just running your own trybot ;-)
> 
> Note that I'm not defending my choice here, just explaining it.  I'm
> open to new ideas and tweaks.

I think a set of instructions that gets you *close enough* to the container
environment and provides host details will be sufficient.

e.g.
podman pull [something]
git clone [something]
git-pw series apply [something]

I agree with Adhemerval that when this fails we'll want any 3rd party
to be able to explain how they got to their setup. I think the host config
is relevant but that just needs to be discussed with the partner.

If we had a "record commands" function and the integrator used it to record
the steps taken then we could just print those out for the container?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.