Re: [edk2-devel] OvmfPkg PlatformCI: Should iasl dependency be updated from 20190215.0.0 ?

["Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  Hi,

> I agree the iasl dependency for CI has not been managed consistently.   When
> all of the CI was setup we decided that iasl should be controlled by the
> platform and thus EmulatorPkg, ArmVirt, and OVMF have their own extdep. 
> This gives those platforms control to rev their version as necessary for
> their platform.   We have found it very common in platform development for
> platforms to have different required versions of iasl.exe.

Are there cases where /old/ iasl versions are required?

> As for the feed.  Yes they are inconsistent.   We were moving away from a
> global nuget.org feed as it just didn't seem necessary to push to
> nuget.org.  But now we are evaluating ways to move entirely away from
> nuget.  Nuget.exe worked pretty well for Windows development and our initial
> use cases but has definitely created a headache on Linux, MacOS and other. 
> There really isn't a generic package management solution that is supported
> cross platform that has free/high quality/secure hosting.  If anyone has
> ideas please share.

On linux / macos / *bsd there is usually no need to create your own
package management.  Standard stuff like iasl / nasm is available as
linux distro package / bsd ports collection package.

Usually you can't pick specific versions.  Usually this isn't a big
issue though, unless you are using an older distro (such as ubuntu 18.04
we used for CI before switching to containers) and need a recent version.

take care,
  Gerd