[gentoo-alt] Re: Prefix CI status summary

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On 1/27/20 10:52 AM, Sam Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Note that Haubi has set up some CI too here: https://dev.azure.com/gentoo-prefix/ci-builds/_build?definitionId=1&_a=summary
>
> They seem not successful right now, but they may need to be re-run as your patch for the rsync issue was published recently.

I've fixed these RAP builds now (they should not rsync against the Prefix(!) tree).

For the RAP and Cygwin builds, which are the ones that exceed Azure's 6 hours limit,
right now I do provide two Azure VMs using my two EUR 45,- monthly credits.
Unfortunately, to allow for reasonable build times, the size of these VMs does
require to have them shut down ~50% of the time to not exceed the 45,- credit,
which allows for running all the builds once a week.  Unfortunately, I haven't
managed to start and stop them automatically, so I do that manually for now.

> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 20:39, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o <mailto:heroxbd@g.o>> wrote:

>     Are there plans to support more distributions, most notably RHEL?  And
>     is it feasible to integrate the CI results with
>     https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/tested?

I'm running 32 and 64 bit bootstraps on Fedora (current and 28), openSUSE
(Leap and Tumbleweed) and Ubuntu (current and 16.04) docker images, both
RAP (all Linux) and Guest (except Ubuntu), once a week.

Not sure about docker images for RHEL.
And I have never managed to get the MacOS builds do something useful.

Also, as I don't have a dockerhub account, I'm not sure yet how to provide build
artifacts (docker images), also for reuse in a subsequent 6 hour slot eventually.

> Do you have a Github organization that can host them? I could also run other distributions say... once a week.
>
> If you make a Github mirror of the Prefix repo we could also trigger CI builds on every change of the prefix project (I think).

Triggering the builds only does make sense when based on both gentoo-repo and
prefix-overlay, because most of the (breaking) commits are done in gentoo-repo.
But then, doing a build for each commit in gentoo-repo might be too much.

Instead, I do use a weekly trigger, independent of any commit somewhere.

> Adding the results to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/tested should be easily doable indeed. If there is some kind of API to update that page we could even automate it
> on every successful build. We could even add an extra column with a link to an already built Gentoo Prefix for anyone to test & play.

Fabian does have some (inofficial) bootstrap result collection here as well:
http://bootstrap.prefix.bitzolder.nl/results/

Unfortunately, since I've moved the Cygwin builds into Azure VMs, I haven't
found time to set up uploading build logs there again.

/haubi/