Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > So while I'm all for making things a little more independent, > > let's not do it in a way that makes life difficult for downstreams. > > There are more there than just a couple of big distro builders. > > I think this is fine. Firmware blobs aren't needed to build QEMU, only > to run t

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-11 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 08:28:34AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 4:59 AM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:21:30AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I guess the main question is who is using the ROM/BIOS sources in the > > > > > ta

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 12:20 AM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 03:57:49PM +, Eldon Stegall wrote: > > Hello! > > I'd be happy to help with this. I'm mostly a consumer of QEMU, but > > greatly appreciate all the work this community has done, and was able > > to contribute a l

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 4:59 AM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:21:30AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I guess the main question is who is using the ROM/BIOS sources in the > > > > tarballs, and would this 2-step process work for those users? If > there > >

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-11 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:21:30AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > > I guess the main question is who is using the ROM/BIOS sources in the > > > tarballs, and would this 2-step process work for those users? If there > > > are distros relying on them then maybe there are some more logisti

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > I guess the main question is who is using the ROM/BIOS sources in the > > tarballs, and would this 2-step process work for those users? If there > > are distros relying on them then maybe there are some more logistics to > > consider since the make-release downloads are both time-consumi

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-05 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
gt; QEMU downloads are currently hosted on qemu.org's Apache web server. > > > > Paolo and I were discussing ways to reduce qemu.org network traffic to > > > > save money and eventually turn off the qemu.org server since there is no > > > > full-time sy

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-04 Thread Michael Roth
> Paolo and I were discussing ways to reduce qemu.org network traffic to > > > save money and eventually turn off the qemu.org server since there is no > > > full-time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU downloads to > > > GitLab Releases. > >

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 09:52:20AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 08:11:35AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > We need to keep the security of QEMU releases in mind. Mike Roth > > signs and publishes releases. Whoever facilitates or hosts the files > > should not be able

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
ffic to > > save money and eventually turn off the qemu.org server since there is no > > full-time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU downloads to > > GitLab Releases. > > > > Since you create and sign QEMU releases I wanted to see what you think > &g

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-01 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 10/1/21 12:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:>> Maybe we should also discuss again whether we could decrease the size of the >> release tarballs. Someone recently mentioned that we could e.g. remove the >> edk2 sources from the tarballs - edk2 is licensed under a BSD-style license, >> so we are not forced

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-01 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > Maybe we should also discuss again whether we could decrease the size of the > release tarballs. Someone recently mentioned that we could e.g. remove the > edk2 sources from the tarballs - edk2 is licensed under a BSD-style license, > so we are not forced to ship its sources in our tarball

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-01 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 08:11:35AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > We need to keep the security of QEMU releases in mind. Mike Roth > signs and publishes releases. Whoever facilitates or hosts the files > should not be able to modify the files after Mike has blessed them. One > way to do this is to

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-01 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU downloads to > GitLab Releases. > > Since you create and sign QEMU releases I wanted to see what you think > about the idea. GitLab Releases has two ways of creating release assets: > archiving a git tree and attaching arbitr

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-01 Thread Thomas Huth
f the qemu.org server since there is no full-time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases. Daniel Berrange posted this in another discussion: "gitlab releases have a per-file size limit that is somewhere on the order of 10 MB IIRC. Our release tarballs ar

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-10-01 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 03:57:49PM +, Eldon Stegall wrote: > Hello! > I'd be happy to help with this. I'm mostly a consumer of QEMU, but > greatly appreciate all the work this community has done, and was able > to contribute a little by helping with QEMU advent this past year. I > would be happ

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-09-30 Thread Eldon Stegall
g's Apache web server. > > Paolo and I were discussing ways to reduce qemu.org network traffic to > > save money and eventually turn off the qemu.org server since there is no > > full-time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU downloads to > > G

Re: Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-09-30 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
e there is no > full-time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU downloads to > GitLab Releases. Daniel Berrange posted this in another discussion: "gitlab releases have a per-file size limit that is somewhere on the order of 10 MB IIRC. Our release tarballs are 100+ MB, s

Moving QEMU downloads to GitLab Releases?

2021-09-30 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
Hi Mike, QEMU downloads are currently hosted on qemu.org's Apache web server. Paolo and I were discussing ways to reduce qemu.org network traffic to save money and eventually turn off the qemu.org server since there is no full-time sysadmin for it. I'd like to discuss moving QEMU do