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Hi Sam, |
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Sam Pfeiffer <sammypfeiffer@×××××.com> writes: |
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> To ease automated building and debugging of the bootstrap of Gentoo |
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> Prefix 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][2] 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 |
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>parameter to the commandline (a 3rd one) in non-interactive mode which |
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>you tell it 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 |
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> (that 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 |
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> time limits on jobs to run (e.g. Azure Pipelines time limit is 6h*, |
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> and the bootstrap takes in between 5h40-6h40 depending on random |
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> things like time to download things, and load on the machine... or |
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> packages just taking longer to build). |
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> And this patch should not change anything to anyone else (AFAIK). |
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Are you aware that in bootstrap-prefix.sh you can specify the stage you |
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are after? e.g. |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Manual_Bootstrap#Stage_1 |
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The text above that could be outdated, but PATH exports and stage1~3 are |
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correct. |
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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/ If there is no way, |
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> aside of the goal of this email, I'd propose to have a mirror in |
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> GitHub. |
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Yes, that's a good to have for me, but not in high priority. |
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> *If you are curious, Stage 1 takes 8min~, Stage 2 takes 29min~, Stage |
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> 3 takes 2h30min~, emerge system takes 2h35min~ on Azure Pipelines, |
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> approximately. |
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Thank you so much for all your work! That's extremely helpful to keep |
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the quality of Prefix codebase. |
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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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Yours, |
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