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Hello, |
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To ease automated building and debugging of the bootstrap of Gentoo Prefix |
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I would like to propose a patch to add the option to stop the |
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non-interactive bootstrap on specific stages of the bootstrap. |
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I'm currently doing this in my CI projects [1] |
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<https://github.com/awesomebytes/gentoo_prefix_ci>[2] |
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<https://github.com/awesomebytes/gentoo_prefix_ci_32b> and I'd love to have |
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this added upstream. |
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I propose a patch like this: |
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https://gist.github.com/awesomebytes/3468477c6c90fe3d985372d50aabba9f |
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Which is what I'm currently using. It just adds another optional parameter |
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to the commandline (a 3rd one) in non-interactive mode which you tell it |
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after which stage to stop (stage1, stage2, stage3). |
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I'm not the most versed person in bash, so maybe there is a more |
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conceptually beautiful way of doing this. My patch is just a proposal (that |
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has been tested and running). |
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This patch is useful because it allows: |
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1) Easier debugging by stages. |
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2) Allows to split the bootstrap job in parts in CI environments with time |
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limits on jobs to run (e.g. Azure Pipelines time limit is 6h*, and the |
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bootstrap takes in between 5h40-6h40 depending on random things like time |
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to download things, and load on the machine... or packages just taking |
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longer to build). |
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And this patch should not change anything to anyone else (AFAIK). |
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Thanks for your time and feedback! |
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P.S.: I'm used to the GitHub/GitLab workflow of having a graphical |
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interface to do a Pull Request... I don't know how to do this with |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/ |
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If there is no way, aside of the goal of this email, I'd propose to have a |
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mirror in GitHub. |
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*If you are curious, Stage 1 takes 8min~, Stage 2 takes 29min~, Stage 3 |
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takes 2h30min~, emerge system takes 2h35min~ on Azure Pipelines, |
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approximately. |
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[1] https://github.com/awesomebytes/gentoo_prefix_ci |
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[2] https://github.com/awesomebytes/gentoo_prefix_ci_32b |
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*Sammy Pfeiffer* |
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PhD Candidate at The Magic Lab within UTS. |
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