Re: [PATCH 0/2] gitlab: expose installed package info in build logs

[Alex Bennée]

Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> writes:

> Hello Daniel,
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:55, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>Many times we see a build job start failing, we wonder if the installed
>>packages have changed since the last passing build. We can rarely
>>diagnose this, however, since we only have the new container image, not
>>the old one.
>>
>
> APT allows you to specify to pin package versions when installing;
> wouldn't that help ensure our tests are deterministic?

Generally we want track the latest LTS version and usually the distros
are pretty good about being cautious about updates. I think the recent
case was because BSD's have a different policy about updating python.

IOW this is a nice to have for debugging but I don't think we want to
freeze the acceptable package set for any given install.

> Furthermore, a gitlab cron job pipeline can be set up to run every
> e.g. few months and inform of any updates so that we can manually bump
> them.
>
> Manos
>
>
>>The lcitool generated containers create a /packages.txt file whose
>>content is intended to be output in the build phase, so record the
>>packages associated with the build.
>>
>>This adds packages.txt to the manually written containers, and modifies
>>the build jobs to display this content. This will improve our future
>>debuggability of CI problems.
>>
>>Daniel P. Berrangé (2):
>>  gitlab: record installed packages in /packages.txt in containers
>>  gitlab: display /packages.txt in build jobs
>>
>> .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest-template.yml                      | 1 +
>> .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuild-template.yml                     | 2 ++
>> tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-all-test-cross.docker    | 3 ++-
>> tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-hexagon-cross.docker     | 3 ++-
>> tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-legacy-test-cross.docker | 3 ++-
>> tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-loongarch-cross.docker   | 3 ++-
>> tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-tricore-cross.docker     | 3 ++-
>> tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-xtensa-cross.docker      | 3 ++-
>> 8 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 2.45.2
>>
>>

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro