Re: [edk2] [RFC] Plan to delete ShellBinPkg from edk2/master

[ray.ni@intel.com]

Mike, Laszlo,
It's a good idea to store the shell binaries into the assets of each stable tag.

If we go in this way, it means "build" requires network connection to download the
shell binary from the assets of a certain release.
Do you think it's acceptable?

Or we can separate the binary download and build into two phases so build phase
can be independent on network connection.

Is there any known practice/solution for such requirement (stable sub-component binaries
needed by a production image generation)?

Thanks,
Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:47 AM
> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>; Bi,
> Dandan <dandan.bi@intel.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: Cetola, Stephano <stephano.cetola@intel.com>; Gao, Liming
> <liming.gao@intel.com>; Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [edk2] [RFC] Plan to delete ShellBinPkg from edk2/master
> 
> Laszlo,
> 
> A PREBUILD action looks like a good idea.
> 
> Release artifacts in GitHub are available as an http link, so a python script to
> download into a path in the build output directory and referenced by
> DSC/FDF should work.
> 
> We could even post shell binaries for the past couple edk2-stable tags
> because release content can be updated.
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 9:07 AM
> > To: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Ni, Ray
> > <ray.ni@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan <dandan.bi@intel.com>;
> > edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> > Cc: Cetola, Stephano <stephano.cetola@intel.com>; Gao, Liming
> > <liming.gao@intel.com>; Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [edk2] [RFC] Plan to delete ShellBinPkg from edk2/master
> >
> > On 04/03/19 17:49, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
> > > Laszlo,
> > >
> > > I think it makes sense to post validated shell
> > binaries
> > > with the edk2-stable tag releases.  GitHub does
> > support
> > > this when a release tag is made.
> > >
> > > However, we would need to make it simple for a
> > platform
> > > to use a binary from that location.  We may need some enhancements
> > > to pull in binary artifacts from
> > different
> > > locations to support a platform build that uses one
> > or
> > > more pre-built binaries.
> >
> > Can PREBUILD scripts (written by platform owners) download the
> > required binaries?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Laszlo