Re: [PATCH 0/3] ci: fix jobs failing on Ubuntu 26.04

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

"Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Four CI jobs fail since ubuntu-latest moved to Ubuntu 26.04.
>
>  * documentation, fuzz smoke test and static-analysis fail with ln: failed
>    to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/dirname': Already exists. Run the ln
>    with sudo.

I see this breakage.  Haven't they corrected the Rust rewrite of
dirname by now, by the way, to make this overwrite unnecessary yet?

>  * linux32 cannot resolve deb.debian.org. Pin it to ubuntu-24.04. The Docker
>    update in actions/runner-images#15205 fixes this on 26.04, but a new
>    runner image will take a long time to roll out, and CI should not stay
>    broken while we wait.

Sigh, but this one is rather straightforward.  We need to be aware
of this change so that we can revert it when it becomes unnecessary.

>  * Use apt-get in linux32 to get rid of the apt does not have a stable CLI
>    interface warnings.

I can see this well, but it is a warning only, so I do not know how
much value in addressing it would be.

> The first two are based on Johannes Schindelin's fixes in Git for Windows
> (git-for-windows/git#6473).
>
> Harald Nordgren (3):
>   ci: use apt-get in the linux32 job
>   install-dependencies: work around a permission problem
>   ci: pin linux32 to ubuntu-24.04 to restore networking

Will queue.  Thanks.

>
>  .github/workflows/main.yml | 6 ++++--
>  ci/install-dependencies.sh | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 50fe5cc63f9cd6e89b87a2c9ccf96a444f4cfdb7
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2478%2FHaraldNordgren%2Fci-linux32-apt-get-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2478/HaraldNordgren/ci-linux32-apt-get-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2478