[U-Boot] [RFC DO-NOT-APPLY 1/1] .travis.yml: use GRUB from Docker image

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:11:58PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 8/5/19 3:17 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 03:04:40PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >>For GitLab we create our own GRUB binaries. Use them for Travis CI too.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> >>---
> >>Hello Tom,
> >>
> >>with this patch every single of the 78 sub-job will pull our Docker image
> >>resulting in 78 times 2GB traffic and 78 times 3 min for pulling the image.
> >>
> >>This cannot be the right way to do it. I think it would be preferable to
> >>copy our GRUB images only. Can't we have a repository on gitlab.denx.de
> >>where we put all Travis CI binary dependencies:
> >>
> >>* GRUB images
> >>* QEMU images
> >>* cross compilers
> >
> >I was hoping that we could tell Travis to just fully use our Docker
> >images.  Looking at
> >https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/build-stages/share-docker-image/ maybe
> >we can just restrict the Docker pull to the test.py stages that use GRUB
> >for tests?  And then as part of a move to Xenial we could also copy out
> >QEMU.
> 
> We would still be downloading gitabyes where we only need a few MBs of
> files.

Yes, but we could also kill out some building time with the move to
xenial, might end up being no real change in overall time.

-- 
Tom
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