Some warnings in the generation of the translation files indicate real
errors, like strings that cannot be extracted for translations. Check
that no warnings are emitted.
- after modifying .gitlab-ci, the template must be regenerated by
running `ci-fairy generate-template`
- when swapping tier1 from f38 to f39, the list in tier2 must be updated
too.
Fixes: e2f04f0d2cc3 ('device: fix generated 'wifi.cloned-mac-address="stable-ssid"' for stable-id')
CentOS Linux 8 is long gone. We were only running tests on this old
build environment, to see how we fare in such environment.
The test was broken for 4+ months. Instead of fixing it, disable it.
It's partly caused by RHEL8, as it is somewhat cumbersome to even build
on CentOS 8. That's because some devel packages (like libteam-devel) are
not installable. As workaround for that, we re-build such packages in a
copr ([1]). The problem is, that we only have one copr build for e.g.
CentOS 8. If we rebuild against latest CentOS 8 Stream, then libteam is
build against newer dependencies, which are not installable on CentOS
Linux 8.1.1911 (etc). We would have to build libteam in a way, that
does not drag newer dependencies that are missing on CentOS Linux 8.
For example, trying to use copr [1] on CentOS Linux 8 and installing
"teamd" gives:
Error:
Problem: package teamd-devel-1.31-4.el8.x86_64 requires teamd = 1.31-4.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- nothing provides libjansson.so.4(libjansson.so.4)(64bit) needed by teamd-1.31-4.el8.x86_64
This could be hacked around, for example by having libteamd-devel not
depend on any teamd package. Instead, just drop it. It's gone.
Arguable, CentOS 8 Stream should be reasonably close (in terms of
versions of gcc, glibc, glib) so we don't miss too much.
[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nmstate/nm-build-deps/https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1793
CentOS7 uses gcc-4.8, which have various problems and working around
them is getting more cumbersome.
Also, CentOS7 is ancient by now. It's time. Drop it.
We don't use "rawhide", because we explicitly enable Fedora versions by
their release number (and "rawhide" is just an alias).
However, by now "rawhide" is Fedora 40. Enable it.
Debian:9 (stretch) is archived. We need to patch the sources.list
for it to be usable.
Although it's end of life, we are still interested, whether we
are able to build with such old compiler. Fix the test.
Debian 9 (stretch) is end of life, and the repositories are archived. We
need to patch the containers so that `apt-get update` continues to work.
A new ci-templates version brings that.
Note that at the moment, there is still another issue for debian:9
containers. Unclear whether that can be fixed. In any case, bumping to
latest ci-templates is not wrong, and works around the first issue on
debian:9, making it possible to at least look at the second issue.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/ci-templates/-/merge_requests/175
We want to follow current Fedora, so update to Fedora 38.
Also, we now use clang-format from Fedora 38 release, so the default
image in gitlab-ci must match, because that image is used for the
"check-tree" test.
While at it, add Fedora 39 and move Fedora 36 to tier 3.
Originally, the package was called vala-devel (it still is on CentOS7).
Then it was renamed to libvala-devel, but keeping a Provides.
On Fedora 39, the Provides was dropped. Workaround.
These stages were not properly implemented and don't seem to work.
Drop them.
Note that we do want that our cached containers get collected eventually.
As these are just caches for performance reasons, that could be done with
little downsides (we can just regenerate the containers when we need them).
However, that's not done by our gitlab-ci stages. Instead, it should
be done on a project level. It's not clear whether that is actually done,
but if there is a need (because of the resources that this wastes), then
we should do that (on freedesktop.org's gitlab instance).
We want that the tier2+ tests are only run manually. As those tests
depend on the respective prep step, there are 3 possibilities:
1) make prep manual and the tier test automatic. That is what we would
want, because then we can just manually trigger the prep step (one
click). However, in the past this didn't work.
2) make the prep automatic and the test manual. That works, the downside
is that we often run the prep step when its not needed. This is what
we used to do to workaround 1).
3) make prep and the test manual. Then there are no unnecessary tests
run, but triggering a manual test is cumbersome. First click to start
the prep step, then wait, then click again.
Revisit this. It seems 1) is working now. Yeay.
Also rename the prep stages, so that it's clear to which tier they
belong. I guess, I could move them instead to prep1, prep2, prep3
stages, but then there are a lot of columns on the web site.
The distro.name is not just a pretty name, its the name under which we fetch
the container. It is thus a well-known name, that we can rely on.
The "base_type" only depends on the distro name, and it makes no sense
to ever choose a different name. Tracking it in the "distributions"
array is thus redundant.
Move the mapping of distro.name to the base type to a separate place.
The tag we actually use already contains a hash of the input files and
is generated (by `ci-fairy generate-templates`). There is no need for having
this fixed prefix. As also seens by having a date there, which is maintained
badly and meaningless.
Drop it.
The benefit is that instead of one long running job for fedora:37 (the
current tier1 test), we have several smaller.
A minor downside is, that if the build is broken, then usually the very
first test would already fail. Previously, that meant that the follow up
tests were skipped. Now, they run all in parallel. However, test
failures should be the exception, so the wasted resources are probably
irrelevant. The upside is, that we can see which tests fail, and we run
them much faster (in parallel).
This is only done for the tier1 test, because those tests are started
automatically. Other tiers need to be triggered manually, which already
means a lot of clicking. Making those also matrix tests, would result in
an insane amount of clicking. As those other tests are run much more
seldom, having them huge is probably fine.
We have many test configurations (i.e. distros like fedora:37,
debian:9). Almost all of them run manually triggered, because running
them every time would be wasteful.
Still, even as we trigger those tests only seldom, whenever we trigger
them all together, they consume still too many resources of the
freedesktop.org gitlab infrastructure.
One possibility would be to just drop old distros (e.g. fedora:30).
Which tests are setup in gitlab-ci is constantly refined and adjusted.
So dropping some distros is not necessarily wrong and bound to happen
eventually.
However, I also don't find it great to just disable tests that are still
passing. If we want to avoid consuming too many resources, we can just
choose not to run those tests. We don't need to enforce that by deleting
tests. Once deleted, such a configuration cannot be tested anymore as it
would be too cumbersome to recreate the setup manually.
Instead, introduce stages/tiers to clearer mark configuration that we
should test even less frequently.
Note that it is still required from the developer to not trigger too
many tests at once, to not monopolize the CI resources. The stages
should make that clearer to see, but don't solve it. Deleting tests
might solve it, but only if we delete a significant number of those
tests, which seems not desirable.
pip on Debian 12 semi-forces us to use a venv. That's hard enough but
even more so when we just want to run meson which only relies on the
standard library anyway.
Since that flag doesn't exist on earlier versions, try both and hope one
invocation succeeds.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/1595
python-setuptools is now gone from debian:testing ([1], [2]):
Package python-setuptools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'python-setuptools' has no installation candidate
This package is entirely optional. Fix the failure by ignoring any failure to
install the package.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=938168
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1391360/python-setuptools-removed-from-testing/
We want to follow current Fedora, so update to f37.
Also, we now use clang-format from Fedora 37 release, so the default
image in gitlab-ci must match, because that image is used for the
"check-tree" test.
During the test, we `tee` the output to a log file in "/tmp".
We do that, because the test script cleans the working directory
several times, so the file cannot reside there.
Afterwards, we need to move the file back into the git-tree, so that
gitlab can archive it.
Previously that was done by "after_script", but the "after_script" may not
see the same "/tmp" as the test run ([1]). This needs to be done as part of the
"script" step.
[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#after_script
The "check-{patch,tree}" jobs use the same container as the default
test on Fedora ("pages_build", which also builds our documentation).
Previously, we thus extended "t_fedora:35". But that way we also
got things that we didn't want (.nm_artifacts and .build@template).
Solve this differently, by letting the jobs directly define what they
need. It's not much more, than extending "t_fedora:35" and workaround
to drop stuff we don't want.
Our test is long and verbose. The output gets truncated after
a few megabytes, but sometimes it's interesting to see what
happens afterwards. Redirect also to a file and archive it.
The output of our test scripts is captured by gitlab. It does however
sanitize things that look like secrets. So it was reasonably save
to call `env` from within the test script.
Next, we will redirect (`tee`) the output of the test script to a
file and archive it. When we do that, the output does not get sanitized
and can be downloaded from the artifacts page.
Stop running `env` as part of the test script. Do it instead as a
separate step. After all, it is useful to see the environment variables
of the test. But sanitized.
It's true, that our gitlab-ci test mostly consists of building NetworkManager.
Hence the name of the script was not entirely wrong. But it's not only building.
I think "run-test.sh" is a much better name. Rename.
