[edk2-devel] [Patch 1/1] EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI: stick with "ubuntu-18.04" for now

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 12/21/20 04:19, Bob Feng wrote:
> "vm_image: 'ubuntu-latest'" now refers to Ubuntu Focal (20.04LTS), not
> Ubuntu Bionic (18.04LTS), according to
> <https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1816>.
> 
> In Focal, the "qemu" package is a dummy package with no dependencies, and
> so the actual emulators are not pulled in. Compare:
> 
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qemu
> 
> This causes CI runs to fail.
> 
> It would be best to switch to the "qemu-system" package name, which
> continues to depend on the emulators:
> 
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/qemu-system
>   https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qemu-system
> 
> However, while that package does make the emulators available, the
> emulators crash. So for now, stick with the previous Ubuntu environment,
> which continues to be supported, per
> <https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1816>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng at intel.com>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish at apple.com>
> Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni at intel.com>
> ---
>  EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml b/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml
> index 0e5f4d9961e3..17d62bb69ec5 100644
> --- a/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml
> +++ b/EmulatorPkg/PlatformCI/.azurepipelines/Ubuntu-GCC5.yml
> @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ pr:
>    - master
>  jobs:
>    - job: Platform_CI
>      variables:
>        package: 'EmulatorPkg'
> -      vm_image: 'ubuntu-latest'
> +      vm_image: 'ubuntu-18.04'
>        should_run: false
>        run_flags: "MAKE_STARTUP_NSH=TRUE"
>  
>      #Use matrix to speed up the build process
>      strategy:
> 

Merged as commit 3ce3274a5ea4, via
<https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/1255>.

Thanks,
Laszlo



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