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

[Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>]

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?

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(-)
>
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>2.45.2
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