[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] gitlab-ci: update base + llvm images with scheduled pipelines

[Emil Velikov]

On 30 August 2018 at 11:41, Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasuarez at igalia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 14:16 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 29 August 2018 at 11:12, Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasuarez at igalia.com> wrote:
>> > Use scheduled pipelines to update both the base and the LLVM images.
>> >
>> > This way allows to have an updated version of the base images even when
>> > the respect Rockerfiles keep the same.
>> >
>>
>> Grammar seems off.
>>
>
> After re-reading it, you're right :)
>
>> Please include an example when a scheduled pipeline is needed/used.
>>
>
> As base images are only re-built when there's a change in the Dockerfile, if
> Ubuntu updates the base image or some of the packages we won't get them until we
> change the Dockerfile, which is something that doesn't happen very frequently.
>
>
> Thus, we use scheduled pipelines: every week or so, we force the full re-build
> of the base images, that are re-built even if the Dockerfile dind't change.
>
I see - nicely done. Thank you.

-Emil