On 12.06.2019 19:35, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes: > >> Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> This patch series changes the way virtual machines for test builds are >>> managed. They are created locally on the developer machine now. The >>> installer is booted on the serial console and the scripts walks through >>> the dialogs to install and configure the guest. >>> >>> That takes the download.patchew.org server out of the loop and makes it >>> alot easier to tweak the guest images (adding build dependencies for >>> example). >>> >>> The install scripts take care to apply host proxy settings (from *_proxy >>> environment variables) to the guest, so any package downloads will be >>> routed through the proxy and can be cached that way. This also makes >>> them work behind strict firewalls. >>> >>> There are also a bunch of smaller tweaks for tests/vm to fix issues I >>> was struggling with. See commit messages of individual patches for >>> details. >> >> Queued to testing/next, thanks. >> >> One of the machines I'm testing on seems to have problems with getting >> the installer working over the serial link but it works on my main dev >> box and others have it working as well so I suspect it might be a local >> problem. > <snip> > > OK I had to drop this series due to persistent problems with the serial > link on one of the boxes Peter uses to do his merge testing. Some of it > seems to be QEMU specific (Ubuntu 18.04 system qemu just hangs) but I > suspect there is also an issue with BSDs and our serial emulation > generally. > > -- > Alex Bennée >
What version of NetBSD did you test? There was recently a short lived regression in curses(3) that affected sysinst(8) (installer) in HEAD, but it was fixed.
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