[XEN PATCH v1 1/6] CI: Refresh the Debian 12 x86_64 container

Javi Merino posted 6 patches 1 month ago
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[XEN PATCH v1 1/6] CI: Refresh the Debian 12 x86_64 container
Posted by Javi Merino 1 month ago
Rework the container to use heredocs for readability, and use
apt-get --no-install-recommends to keep the size down.

This reduces the size of the (uncompressed) container from 3.44GB to 1.67GB.

Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@cloud.com>
---
 automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++
 automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile  | 57 ----------------
 automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml              | 20 +++---
 automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml               | 14 ++--
 automation/scripts/containerize              |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
 delete mode 100644 automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile

diff --git a/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile b/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e0ca8b7e9c91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 debian:bookworm
+LABEL maintainer.name="The Xen Project" \
+      maintainer.email="xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org"
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# build depends
+RUN <<EOF
+#!/bin/bash
+    set -eu
+
+    apt-get update
+    DEPS=(
+        # Xen
+        bison
+        build-essential
+        checkpolicy
+        clang
+        flex
+
+        # Tools (general)
+        ca-certificates
+        expect
+        git-core
+        libnl-3-dev
+        pkg-config
+        wget
+        # libxenguest dombuilder
+        liblzma-dev
+        zlib1g-dev
+        # libacpi
+        acpica-tools
+        # libxl
+        uuid-dev
+        libyajl-dev
+        # RomBIOS
+        bcc
+        bin86
+        # xentop
+        libncurses5-dev
+        # Python bindings
+        python3-dev
+        python3-setuptools
+        # Ocaml bindings/oxenstored
+        ocaml-nox
+        ocaml-findlib
+        # To build the documentation
+        pandoc
+
+        # for test phase, qemu-smoke-* jobs
+        qemu-system-x86
+
+        # for qemu-alpine-x86_64-gcc
+        busybox-static
+        cpio
+
+        # For *-efi jobs
+        ovmf
+    )
+
+    apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install "${DEPS[@]}"
+
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists*
+EOF
+
+USER root
+WORKDIR /build
diff --git a/automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile b/automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 72e01aa58b55..000000000000
--- a/automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
-FROM --platform=linux/amd64 debian:bookworm
-LABEL maintainer.name="The Xen Project" \
-      maintainer.email="xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org"
-
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-ENV USER root
-
-RUN mkdir /build
-WORKDIR /build
-
-# build depends
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get --quiet --yes install \
-        build-essential \
-        zlib1g-dev \
-        libncurses5-dev \
-        python3-dev \
-        python3-setuptools \
-        uuid-dev \
-        libyajl-dev \
-        libaio-dev \
-        libglib2.0-dev \
-        clang \
-        libpixman-1-dev \
-        pkg-config \
-        flex \
-        bison \
-        acpica-tools \
-        bin86 \
-        bcc \
-        liblzma-dev \
-        libnl-3-dev \
-        ocaml-nox \
-        libfindlib-ocaml-dev \
-        markdown \
-        transfig \
-        pandoc \
-        checkpolicy \
-        wget \
-        git \
-        nasm \
-        gnupg \
-        apt-transport-https \
-        golang \
-        # for test phase, qemu-smoke-* jobs
-        qemu-system-x86 \
-        expect \
-        # For *-efi jobs
-        ovmf \
-        # for test phase, qemu-alpine-* jobs
-        cpio \
-        busybox-static \
-        && \
-        apt-get autoremove -y && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
index 09dd9e6ccbd0..eb2c23619a2c 100644
--- a/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
+++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml
@@ -341,15 +341,15 @@ alpine-3.18-gcc-debug:
     CONTAINER: alpine:3.18
     BUILD_QEMU_XEN: y
 
-debian-bookworm-gcc-debug:
+debian-12-x86_64-gcc-debug:
   extends: .gcc-x86-64-build-debug
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
 
-debian-bookworm-clang-debug:
+debian-12-x86_64-clang-debug:
   extends: .clang-x86-64-build-debug
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
 
 debian-12-ppc64le-gcc-debug:
   extends: .gcc-ppc64le-cross-build-debug
@@ -553,20 +553,20 @@ debian-12-x86_64-gcc-ibt:
     EXTRA_FIXED_RANDCONFIG: |
       CONFIG_XEN_IBT=y
 
-debian-bookworm-clang:
+debian-12-x86_64-clang:
   extends: .clang-x86-64-build
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
 
-debian-bookworm-gcc:
+debian-12-x86_64-gcc:
   extends: .gcc-x86-64-build
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
 
-debian-bookworm-gcc-randconfig:
+debian-12-x86_64-gcc-randconfig:
   extends: .gcc-x86-64-build
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
     RANDCONFIG: y
 
 debian-bookworm-32-clang-debug:
diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml
index e76a37bef32d..0812ddb42d9b 100644
--- a/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml
+++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 .qemu-x86-64:
   extends: .test-jobs-common
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
     LOGFILE: qemu-smoke-x86-64.log
   artifacts:
     paths:
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 build-each-commit-gcc:
   extends: .test-jobs-common
   variables:
-    CONTAINER: debian:bookworm
+    CONTAINER: debian:12-x86_64
     XEN_TARGET_ARCH: x86_64
     CC: gcc
   script:
@@ -461,35 +461,35 @@ qemu-smoke-x86-64-gcc:
   script:
     - ./automation/scripts/qemu-smoke-x86-64.sh pv 2>&1 | tee ${LOGFILE}
   needs:
-    - debian-bookworm-gcc-debug
+    - debian-12-x86_64-gcc-debug
 
 qemu-smoke-x86-64-clang:
   extends: .qemu-smoke-x86-64
   script:
     - ./automation/scripts/qemu-smoke-x86-64.sh pv 2>&1 | tee ${LOGFILE}
   needs:
-    - debian-bookworm-clang-debug
+    - debian-12-x86_64-clang-debug
 
 qemu-smoke-x86-64-gcc-pvh:
   extends: .qemu-smoke-x86-64
   script:
     - ./automation/scripts/qemu-smoke-x86-64.sh pvh 2>&1 | tee ${LOGFILE}
   needs:
-    - debian-bookworm-gcc-debug
+    - debian-12-x86_64-gcc-debug
 
 qemu-smoke-x86-64-clang-pvh:
   extends: .qemu-smoke-x86-64
   script:
     - ./automation/scripts/qemu-smoke-x86-64.sh pvh 2>&1 | tee ${LOGFILE}
   needs:
-    - debian-bookworm-clang-debug
+    - debian-12-x86_64-clang-debug
 
 qemu-smoke-x86-64-gcc-efi:
   extends: .qemu-smoke-x86-64
   script:
     - ./automation/scripts/qemu-smoke-x86-64-efi.sh pv 2>&1 | tee ${LOGFILE}
   needs:
-    - debian-bookworm-gcc-debug
+    - debian-12-x86_64-gcc-debug
 
 qemu-smoke-riscv64-gcc:
   extends: .qemu-riscv64
diff --git a/automation/scripts/containerize b/automation/scripts/containerize
index 6ac02c42d124..ea6e1a9b18f4 100755
--- a/automation/scripts/containerize
+++ b/automation/scripts/containerize
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ case "_${CONTAINER}" in
     _bullseye-riscv64) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:11-riscv64" ;;
     _bookworm-riscv64) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:12-riscv64" ;;
     _bookworm-x86_64-gcc-ibt) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:12-x86_64-gcc-ibt" ;;
-    _bookworm|_) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:bookworm" ;;
+    _bookworm|_bookworm-x86_64|_) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:12-x86_64" ;;
     _bookworm-i386) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:bookworm-i386" ;;
     _bookworm-arm64v8-arm32-gcc) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:bookworm-arm64v8-arm32-gcc" ;;
     _bookworm-arm64v8) CONTAINER="${BASE}/debian:bookworm-arm64v8" ;;
-- 
2.45.2
Re: [XEN PATCH v1 1/6] CI: Refresh the Debian 12 x86_64 container
Posted by Andrew Cooper 1 month ago
On 24/10/2024 11:04 am, Javi Merino wrote:
> Rework the container to use heredocs for readability, and use
> apt-get --no-install-recommends to keep the size down.
>
> This reduces the size of the (uncompressed) container from 3.44GB to 1.67GB.

!!

>
> Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@cloud.com>
> ---
>  automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile  | 57 ----------------
>  automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml              | 20 +++---
>  automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml               | 14 ++--
>  automation/scripts/containerize              |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
>  delete mode 100644 automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile
>
> diff --git a/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile b/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e0ca8b7e9c91
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
> @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
> +# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
> +FROM --platform=linux/amd64 debian:bookworm
> +LABEL maintainer.name="The Xen Project" \
> +      maintainer.email="xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org"

This wants to become two LABEL lines.

> +
> +ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> +
> +# build depends
> +RUN <<EOF
> +#!/bin/bash
> +    set -eu

Doesn't this need a `useradd --create-home user` here?

[Edit] Oh, no, because of the script change.  In which case can you note
this in the commit message and says a root container for now, until some
other CI scripts can be adjusted.

> +
> +    apt-get update

apt-get -y


> +    DEPS=(
> +        # Xen
> +        bison
> +        build-essential
> +        checkpolicy
> +        clang
> +        flex
> +
> +        # Tools (general)
> +        ca-certificates

Interestingly, we've gained ca-certificates and dropped apt-transport-https.

ca-certificates is a side effect of --no-install-recommends, so is
fine.  I recall there being a specific reason why we needed
apt-transport-https, but I can't recall why exactly.  Something about
the LetsEncrypt Cert used by xenbits IIRC.

Anthony - do you remember?


> +        expect

Expect is only for the test phase, so should move later.

> +        git-core
> +        libnl-3-dev

libnl-3-dev should be down in the #libxl section.  It's only for COLO
support.

> +        pkg-config
> +        wget
> +        # libxenguest dombuilder
> +        liblzma-dev
> +        zlib1g-dev

This is also fun.  In Ubuntu, I've got:

    libbz2-dev
    libzstd-dev
    liblzo2-dev
    liblzma-dev
    zlib1g-dev

which I think is all the algorithms we support in libxenguest.

Any decompressor which we don't find a suitable devel package gets the
hypervisor form instead.

> +        # To build the documentation
> +        pandoc

I know we had pandoc before, but I'd like to drop it.

I'm intending to turn off docs generally, and do them separately in a
single job that has *all* the docs build dependencies, not a misc subset
that the build system happens not to complain at.


I'm on the fence about the Qemu build things.  It's off by default now,
but the container never previously had meson/ninja so it wouldn't have
built either.  Perhaps leave them out until someone complains.


One thing you did drop which probably wants to stay is golang.  We have
golang bindings for libxl which (like Ocaml) are built conditionally on
finding the toolchain.

~Andrew

Re: [XEN PATCH v1 1/6] CI: Refresh the Debian 12 x86_64 container
Posted by Javi Merino 1 month ago
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:04:10PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 24/10/2024 11:04 am, Javi Merino wrote:
> > Rework the container to use heredocs for readability, and use
> > apt-get --no-install-recommends to keep the size down.
> >
> > This reduces the size of the (uncompressed) container from 3.44GB to 1.67GB.
> 
> !!
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@cloud.com>
> > ---
> >  automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile  | 57 ----------------
> >  automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml              | 20 +++---
> >  automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml               | 14 ++--
> >  automation/scripts/containerize              |  2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
> >  delete mode 100644 automation/build/debian/bookworm.dockerfile
> >
> > diff --git a/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile b/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..e0ca8b7e9c91
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/automation/build/debian/12-x86_64.dockerfile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
> > +# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
> > +FROM --platform=linux/amd64 debian:bookworm
> > +LABEL maintainer.name="The Xen Project" \
> > +      maintainer.email="xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org"
> 
> This wants to become two LABEL lines.

Yes, Anthony pointed it out in another patch.  I have fixed all the
dockerfiles in these series.

> > +
> > +ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> > +
> > +# build depends
> > +RUN <<EOF
> > +#!/bin/bash
> > +    set -eu
> 
> Doesn't this need a `useradd --create-home user` here?
> 
> [Edit] Oh, no, because of the script change.  In which case can you note
> this in the commit message and says a root container for now, until some
> other CI scripts can be adjusted.

I put it in the cover letter. I'll add it to the commit message as
well.

> > +
> > +    apt-get update
> 
> apt-get -y

apt-get update refreshes the package lists.  -y doesn't do anything
here.  It is needed for "apt-get install" below but not for
apt-get update.  It would be needed for "apt-get upgrade", but
we don't.

> > +    DEPS=(
> > +        # Xen
> > +        bison
> > +        build-essential
> > +        checkpolicy
> > +        clang
> > +        flex
> > +
> > +        # Tools (general)
> > +        ca-certificates
> 
> Interestingly, we've gained ca-certificates and dropped apt-transport-https.

ca-certificates is needed for curl, wget or anything that tries to
validate tls certificates.  It is a Recommends of libcurl, as
curl by default validates the ca certificate of https servers.

> ca-certificates is a side effect of --no-install-recommends, so is
> fine.  I recall there being a specific reason why we needed
> apt-transport-https, but I can't recall why exactly.  Something about
> the LetsEncrypt Cert used by xenbits IIRC.

I dropped apt-transport-https because it doesn't make sense to have
it.  apt-transport-https allows apt to access package repositories over https,
but we were installing alongside all the other packages.  apt is never
used again, so giving it the ability to install packages over https is
pointless.

> Anthony - do you remember?
> 
> 
> > +        expect
> 
> Expect is only for the test phase, so should move later.

I put it here because ./configure checks for it.

> > +        git-core
> > +        libnl-3-dev
> 
> libnl-3-dev should be down in the #libxl section.  It's only for COLO
> support.

Moved.

> > +        pkg-config
> > +        wget
> > +        # libxenguest dombuilder
> > +        liblzma-dev
> > +        zlib1g-dev
> 
> This is also fun.  In Ubuntu, I've got:
> 
>     libbz2-dev
>     libzstd-dev
>     liblzo2-dev
>     liblzma-dev
>     zlib1g-dev
> 
> which I think is all the algorithms we support in libxenguest.

I did this in the arm64v8 container and forgot to do it here.  Fixed now.

> Any decompressor which we don't find a suitable devel package gets the
> hypervisor form instead.
> 
> > +        # To build the documentation
> > +        pandoc
> 
> I know we had pandoc before, but I'd like to drop it.
> 
> I'm intending to turn off docs generally, and do them separately in a
> single job that has *all* the docs build dependencies, not a misc subset
> that the build system happens not to complain at.

I had the "build the docs as its own job" in my TODO list and was
going to drop pandoc from this dockerfile then.  I can remove pandoc
in this commit if you prefer.

> I'm on the fence about the Qemu build things.  It's off by default now,
> but the container never previously had meson/ninja so it wouldn't have
> built either.  Perhaps leave them out until someone complains.

I thought I had removed them.  Is there anything else that needs to
go?

> One thing you did drop which probably wants to stay is golang.  We have
> golang bindings for libxl which (like Ocaml) are built conditionally on
> finding the toolchain.

Gah.  Another one that I did in the arm64 container that I forgot to
move here.  I will add golang-go in the next version of the series.

Thanks,
Javi

Re: [XEN PATCH v1 1/6] CI: Refresh the Debian 12 x86_64 container
Posted by Andrew Cooper 4 weeks, 1 day ago
On 24/10/2024 4:10 pm, Javi Merino wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:04:10PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 24/10/2024 11:04 am, Javi Merino wrote:
>>> +
>>> +    apt-get update
>> apt-get -y
> apt-get update refreshes the package lists.  -y doesn't do anything
> here.  It is needed for "apt-get install" below but not for
> apt-get update.  It would be needed for "apt-get upgrade", but
> we don't.

Hmm ok.  We might want to adjust the others to match then.

>
>>> +    DEPS=(
>>> +        # Xen
>>> +        bison
>>> +        build-essential
>>> +        checkpolicy
>>> +        clang
>>> +        flex
>>> +
>>> +        # Tools (general)
>>> +        ca-certificates
>> Interestingly, we've gained ca-certificates and dropped apt-transport-https.
> ca-certificates is needed for curl, wget or anything that tries to
> validate tls certificates.  It is a Recommends of libcurl, as
> curl by default validates the ca certificate of https servers.
>
>> ca-certificates is a side effect of --no-install-recommends, so is
>> fine.  I recall there being a specific reason why we needed
>> apt-transport-https, but I can't recall why exactly.  Something about
>> the LetsEncrypt Cert used by xenbits IIRC.
> I dropped apt-transport-https because it doesn't make sense to have
> it.  apt-transport-https allows apt to access package repositories over https,
> but we were installing alongside all the other packages.  apt is never
> used again, so giving it the ability to install packages over https is
> pointless.

That is, as they say, an assumption.

fe746c26c0d2 ("automation/gitlab: add https transport support to Debian
images")

Although, subsequently the use of apt.llvm.org was removed:

a6b1e2b80fe2 ("automation: Remove clang-8 from Debian unstable container")
7a2983757216 ("CI: Remove llvm-8 from the Debian Stretch container")

So I guess we're back to being ok without it.
>>> +        expect
>> Expect is only for the test phase, so should move later.
> I put it here because ./configure checks for it.

It does?

That's not necessary/expected.

>> Any decompressor which we don't find a suitable devel package gets the
>> hypervisor form instead.
>>
>>> +        # To build the documentation
>>> +        pandoc
>> I know we had pandoc before, but I'd like to drop it.
>>
>> I'm intending to turn off docs generally, and do them separately in a
>> single job that has *all* the docs build dependencies, not a misc subset
>> that the build system happens not to complain at.
> I had the "build the docs as its own job" in my TODO list and was
> going to drop pandoc from this dockerfile then.  I can remove pandoc
> in this commit if you prefer.

Dropping packages from existing containers is complicated, because the
container (name) is shared with prior branches.  You have to wait until
the oldest version of Xen which still uses the package leaves testing
(== leaves security support, == 3y), or we've backported changes to all
branches to drop the dependency.

The rename here gives us leeway because this change won't clobber any
older branches in Xen, but I don't want to set the precedent.

>
>> I'm on the fence about the Qemu build things.  It's off by default now,
>> but the container never previously had meson/ninja so it wouldn't have
>> built either.  Perhaps leave them out until someone complains.
> I thought I had removed them.  Is there anything else that needs to
> go?

These containers are both for CI and human use, so "what happens in CI"
isn't the only consideration.

But, given that Qemu didn't build in the old container anyway, I'm not
overly fussed about keeping it working in the new container.

So yes, please keep the deps removed.  We can always add them back in later.

~Andrew

Re: [XEN PATCH v1 1/6] CI: Refresh the Debian 12 x86_64 container
Posted by Javi Merino 2 weeks, 5 days ago
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:46:35PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 24/10/2024 4:10 pm, Javi Merino wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:04:10PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> On 24/10/2024 11:04 am, Javi Merino wrote:
> >>> +
> >>> +    apt-get update
> >> apt-get -y
> > apt-get update refreshes the package lists.  -y doesn't do anything
> > here.  It is needed for "apt-get install" below but not for
> > apt-get update.  It would be needed for "apt-get upgrade", but
> > we don't.
> 
> Hmm ok.  We might want to adjust the others to match then.

Ok, I will send a patch for the others.

> >>> +        expect
> >> Expect is only for the test phase, so should move later.
> > I put it here because ./configure checks for it.
> 
> It does?
> 
> That's not necessary/expected.

Ok, I'll move it. 

> >> Any decompressor which we don't find a suitable devel package gets the
> >> hypervisor form instead.
> >>
> >>> +        # To build the documentation
> >>> +        pandoc
> >> I know we had pandoc before, but I'd like to drop it.
> >>
> >> I'm intending to turn off docs generally, and do them separately in a
> >> single job that has *all* the docs build dependencies, not a misc subset
> >> that the build system happens not to complain at.
> > I had the "build the docs as its own job" in my TODO list and was
> > going to drop pandoc from this dockerfile then.  I can remove pandoc
> > in this commit if you prefer.
> 
> Dropping packages from existing containers is complicated, because the
> container (name) is shared with prior branches.  You have to wait until
> the oldest version of Xen which still uses the package leaves testing
> (== leaves security support, == 3y), or we've backported changes to all
> branches to drop the dependency.
> 
> The rename here gives us leeway because this change won't clobber any
> older branches in Xen, but I don't want to set the precedent.

Ok, this is another one to fix for the future.  Having dependencies in
the dockerfile in this branch because it is used in another branch is
a recipe for disaster.  CI for a branch should be defined on that
branch.

I'll drop pandoc.

> >> I'm on the fence about the Qemu build things.  It's off by default now,
> >> but the container never previously had meson/ninja so it wouldn't have
> >> built either.  Perhaps leave them out until someone complains.
> > I thought I had removed them.  Is there anything else that needs to
> > go?
> 
> These containers are both for CI and human use, so "what happens in CI"
> isn't the only consideration.
> 
> But, given that Qemu didn't build in the old container anyway, I'm not
> overly fussed about keeping it working in the new container.
> 
> So yes, please keep the deps removed.  We can always add them back in later.

Ok.

Cheers,
Javi