[PATCH v6 0/6] Community Lab Containers and Builder Engine

[Aaron Conole]

Adam Hassick <ahassick at iol.unh.edu> writes:

> These changes are based off of an internal copy that should've been kept up-to-date with the latest patch
> series. This internal copy is what we're running in production to build our images. This is where I made my
> changes when adding documentation for new features. I'll make sure that the changes Owen was asked to
> add between the initial patchset and the v4 patchset are present in what we have running in production and
> in the next patch.
>
> On an unrelated note, the version of the arch dockerfile template in this patch no longer builds without error.
> This is due to a change in the arch base image that prevents the installation of pip packages in the root
> environment. I will include those changes in the next patchset as well.

Thanks.  I look forward to v7.

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:29 AM Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Adam Hassick <ahassick at iol.unh.edu>
>  > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2023 8:15 PM
>  > To: ci at dpdk.org
>  > Cc: aconole at redhat.com; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Adam Hassick
>  > <ahassick at iol.unh.edu>
>  > Subject: [PATCH v6 0/6] Community Lab Containers and Builder Engine
>  > 
>  > This patch series contains a new version of the DPDK CI containers. The old
>  > version was tied very tightly to the Community Lab Infrastructure, so it was
>  > not suitable for general use. This version is designed to make adding new
>  > OSes or OS versions as easy as possible. The minimum functionality can easily
>  > be built on any system that can compile DPDK. It includes support for
>  > building containers for other non-native architectures (ex: arm containers
>  > on x86) and for baking ABI references into the images. Support for
>  > building the Coverity Scan container image has also been added.
>  > 
>  > The inventory file as added in this patch series defines what the community
>  > lab
>  > currently supports.
>  > 
>  > If you want to build these yourself, don't try to do parallel Makefile builds
>  > on non-server hardware. Libabigail is built into the containers, and since it
>  > is not avaliable in all distros it is compiled from source for many targets.
>  > If embedding the abi is enabled (DPDK_CI_CONTAINERS_BUILD_ABI=Y), with
>  > the
>  > current settings, DPDK will be compiled thrice for every target in the
>  > inventory file. Due to how the containers are constructed, building on
>  > non-native architectures is especially expensive because DPDK is compiled with
>  > an emulated compiler in a qemu vm that only has one thread.
>  > 
>
>  Hi Adam,
>
>  Are you sure your changes were based on Owen's most recent patchset (v4)?
>  I noticed that the README no longer mentions the dependency on podman v4.0.0. See:
>  https://inbox.dpdk.org/ci/DM4PR12MB51677D9D8DBCD1A3D7D3997DDA2B9@DM4PR12MB5167.namprd12.prod.outlook.com/