Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] gitlab-ci: Fix Avocado cache usage

[Thomas Huth]

On 04/08/2020 18.24, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> In commit 6957fd98dc ("gitlab: add avocado asset caching") we
>> tried to save the Avocado cache (as in commit c1073e44b4 with
>> Travis-CI) however it doesn't work as expected. For some reason
>> Avocado uses /root/avocado_cache/ which we can not select later.
>>
>> Manually generate a Avocado config to force the use of the
>> current job's directory.
>>
>> This patch is based on an earlier version from Philippe Mathieu-Daudé.
> 
> Maybe add a Based-on: <msgid>?

Isn't that tag rather used for expressing dependencies between patch
series? See
https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Base_patches_against_current_git_master
?

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  .gitlab-ci.yml | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
>> index e96bcd50f8..9820066379 100644
>> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
>> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
>> @@ -47,11 +47,24 @@ include:
>>      - find . -type f -exec touch {} +
>>      - make $MAKE_CHECK_ARGS
>>  
>> -.post_acceptance_template: &post_acceptance
>> +.acceptance_template: &acceptance_definition
>> +  cache:
>> +    key: "${CI_JOB_NAME}-cache"
>> +    paths:
>> +      - ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/avocado-cache
>> +    policy: pull-push
>> +  before_script:
>> +    - mkdir -p ~/.config/avocado
>> +    - echo "[datadir.paths]" > ~/.config/avocado/avocado.conf
>> +    - echo "cache_dirs = ['${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/avocado-cache']"
>> +           >> ~/.config/avocado/avocado.conf
> 
> I was hoping there was a neater way to do this with the multiline
> commands but whatever:

I'm still fighting YAML syntax when it comes to such cases ... so I'm
open to suggestions!

> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Thanks a lot!

 Thomas