On 22/02/2021 11.14, Alex Bennée wrote:
This section has grown a little stale so clean-up the language and
examples for current usage:
- refer to containers at the top
- mention podman can also be used
- add podman prerequisites section
- move to using "docker-help" for online help
- mention the registry and it's purpose
- don't refer to out-of-date min-glib image
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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docs/devel/testing.rst | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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.. code::
- make docker-test-build@min-glib
+ make docker-test-build@centos7
-This will create a container instance using the ``min-glib`` image (the image
+This will create a container instance using the ``centos7`` image (the image
is downloaded and initialized automatically), in which the ``test-build`` job
is executed.
We're going to drop support for CentOS 7 in three months (May) ... so maybe
it makes more sense to directly use centos8 or another long-term distro here?
+Registry
+--------
+
+The QEMU project has a container registry hosted by GitLab at
+``registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu`` which will automatically be
+used to pull in pre-built layers. This avoids unnecessary strain on
+the distro archives created by multiple developers running the same
+container build steps over and over again. This can be overridden
+locally by using the ``NOCACHE`` build option:
Thanks a lot for adding the information!
Thomas