Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docker: Fix PATH for ccache

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:02:20AM +0200, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
> <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:28:36PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> >> On Wed, 10/18 01:08, no-reply@patchew.org wrote:
> >> > Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/test'.
> >> > Submodule 'dtc' (git://git.qemu-project.org/dtc.git) registered for path 'dtc'
> >> > Cloning into '/var/tmp/patchew-tester-tmp-jhpnlaz0/src/docker-src.2017-10-18-04.03.32.32287/qemu.tar.vroot/dtc'...
> >> > fatal: unable to connect to git.qemu-project.org:
> >> > git.qemu-project.org[0: 172.99.69.163]: errno=Connection timed out
> >> >
> >> > fatal: clone of 'git://git.qemu-project.org/dtc.git' into submodule path '/var/tmp/patchew-tester-tmp-jhpnlaz0/src/docker-src.2017-10-18-04.03.32.32287/qemu.tar.vroot/dtc' failed
> >> > Failed to clone 'dtc'. Retry scheduled
> >> > Cloning into '/var/tmp/patchew-tester-tmp-jhpnlaz0/src/docker-src.2017-10-18-04.03.32.32287/qemu.tar.vroot/dtc'...
> >> > fatal: unable to connect to git.qemu-project.org:
> >> > git.qemu-project.org[0: 172.99.69.163]: errno=Connection timed out
> >> >
> >> > fatal: clone of 'git://git.qemu-project.org/dtc.git' into submodule path '/var/tmp/patchew-tester-tmp-jhpnlaz0/src/docker-src.2017-10-18-04.03.32.32287/qemu.tar.vroot/dtc' failed
> >> > Failed to clone 'dtc' a second time, aborting
> >> > failed to init submodule dtc
> >>
> >> So now patchew is less robust on network hiccups: a number of the same "git
> >> submodule update --init" calls have succeeded above, so this is incidental. Any
> >> idea how to improve that? Maybe if there is a checkout from $QEMU_SRC, clone/cp
> >> from there instead of fetch from submodule remote?
> >
> > If patchew has unreliable connectivity to git.qemu.org then the best thing
> > is probably have a background job that mirrors the git.qemu.org repos on
> > the patchew server. Then have the test job modify .gitmodules to point to
> > your local mirror. That way, network access is used during the background
> > job only, and actual builds just get a local clone from the cache.
> 
> It looks like git://git.qemu-project.org/dtc.git is completely down
> now, so I'm not sure it's only a patchew issue.
> 
> I think having a fall back to the locally checked out submodule would
> be a good idea, QEMU submodules don't update that often.
> 
> Whatever the solution ends up being can we have something in tree that
> others can use? We run the Docker tests internally and I would like to
> have the same setup (plus it saves me having to maintain something :)
> ).

What is already in tree works just fine for developers in general. You
can just run 'make docker-BLAH' and it'll right the right thing. If devs
hit a transient problem with git they can just re-run it. The problem
here is just about ensuring that patchew has as close to 100% reliable
checkout as possible, by minimizing the impact of transient network
failures for it.


Regards,
Daniel
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