From: Victor Lira <victorm.l...@amd.com> This patch series is a proof of concept that a separate repository can be used to generate kernel, rootfs, and other commonly used binary artifacts, and have Xen test jobs load these instead of generating them every run.
The current configuration of Xen CI generates these using "dummy" jobs in every pipeline. This unecessarily uses a large amount of storage and network traffic because artifacts are duplicated overprojects/branches. Instead, use GitLab CI built-in functionality to retrieve them from a separate repository using the "needs" keyword. The "needs:project" feature is currently limited to 5 artifacts archives from external pipelines per job, but web requests can be used if more are needed. It's preferable to use this as opposed to just web requests since this doesn't requre modying the any test scripts as long as the archive has the same directory structure. The example of a test artifacts repository: https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/victormlira/test-artifacts/-/pipelines/1508031895 The example of the use: https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/sstabellini/xen/-/pipelines/1508069266 Stefano Stabellini (1): Initial commit -- 2.25.1
