Re: [PATCH] ci: run "apt-get update" before "apt-get install"

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:50:33AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
>
>> +    - name: Install other dependencies
>> +      run: |
>> +        sudo apt-get install -q -y libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev gettext zlib1g-dev
>
> My CI runs based on 'next' started failing today. I think we'd want this
> on top (of js/ci-make-sparse):

Makes sense.

> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] ci: run "apt-get update" before "apt-get install"
>
> The "sparse" workflow runs "apt-get install" to pick up a few necessary
> packages. But it needs to run "apt-get update" first, or it risks trying
> to download an old package version that no longer exists. And in fact
> this happens now, with output like:
>
>   2021-07-26T17:40:51.2551880Z E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl4-openssl-dev_7.68.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 52.147.219.192 80]
>   2021-07-26T17:40:51.2554304Z E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
>
> Our other ci jobs don't suffer from this; they rely on scripts in ci/,
> and ci/install-dependencies does the appropriate "apt-get update".
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> I guess this package setup could also be moved into ci/install-dependencies.sh,
> but I don't think it really buys anything (the "apt-get update" line
> would not even be shared, because the outermost layer is a big switch
> statement on the jobname). OTOH, it looks like other one-off jobs are in
> there (e.g., StaticAnalysis).
>
> Anyway, this is the minimal fixup.
>
>  .github/workflows/main.yml | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
> index 1b5c039207..01878884ae 100644
> --- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
> +++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
> @@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ jobs:
>        run: sudo dpkg -i sparse-20.04/sparse_*.deb
>      - name: Install other dependencies
>        run: |
> +        sudo apt-get update -q &&
>          sudo apt-get install -q -y libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev gettext zlib1g-dev
>      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
>      - run: make sparse