On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 1:13 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 02:21:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 2:57 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:23:56AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > > On 20/09/2022 10.21, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:44:27AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Seen here for example:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/3050165356#L2543
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.7 required by
> > > > > > /usr/local/lib/libpython3.9.so.1.0 not found
> > > > > > ERROR: Cannot use '/usr/local/bin/python3', Python >= 3.6 is
> > > required.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ... looks like the Python binary is not working anymore? Does
> > > anybody know
> > > > > > what happened here?
> > > > >
> > > > > FreeBSD ports is only guaranteed to work with latest minor release
> > > > > base image. The python binary recently started relying on symbols
> > > > > in the 13.1 base image, and we're using 13.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > I updated lcitool last week to pick 13.1, so we just need a refresh
> > > > > on the QEMU side to pick this up.
> > > >
> > > > OK ... Alex, IIRC you have a patch queued to update the files that
> are
> > > > refreshed by lcitool ... does that already contain the update for
> > > FreeBSD,
> > > > too?
> > >
> > > Oh actually, I'm forgetting that QEMU doesn't use the 'lcitool
> manifest'
> > > command for auto-generating the gitlab-ci.yml file. In QEMU's case just
> > > manually edit .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml to change
> > >
> > >     CIRRUS_VM_IMAGE_NAME: freebsd-13-0
> > >
> >
> > FreeBSD's support policy is that we EOL minor dot releases a few months
> > after
> > the next minor release is final. Part of that process involves moving the
> > build
> > of packages to that new minor version (which is what's not guaranteed to
> > work
> > on older versions... only old binaries on new versions is guaranteed)...
> > And that's
> > the problem that was hit here.
>
> It would be nice if something in the ports tool / packages was
> able to report the incompatibility at time of install, rather
> than leaving a later runtime failed.
>

Indeed. I've suggested it to the authors...  There's some technical issues
around this and the package format they need to work out.


> > I'll try to submit changes after the next minor release in that 'few
> month'
> > window
> > to update this in the future. In general, doing so would be the best fit
> > with FreeBSD's
> > support model...  It's one of those things I didn't think of at the time,
> > but is obvious in
> > hindsight.
>
> Note, we're reliant on Cirrus CI actually publishing the new images
> for use. I've not previously checked before how quickly they publish
> them after FreeBSD does the upstream release, but anyway I go by what
> they list here:
>
>   https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/FreeBSD/


 Yea. They have been pretty good in the past about getting new images up
quickly after the release.

Warner

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