Docker CI Image Change Freeze

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:29 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El dimarts, 29 de novembre de 2022, a les 10:15:33 (CET), Ben Cooksley va
> escriure:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As an update to this, sufficient changes have been made within Craft that
> > it is now possible to build Qt 5 images so i'm releasing the freeze for
> > those images.
> > Qt 6 remains broken, and therefore remains frozen at this time (see
> > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-images/-/jobs/619808)
> >
> > As mentioned previously, I believe this to be a CMake bug given the lack
> of
> > change in Ninja.
> >
> > At this stage I would suggest investigation be focused on either
> upgrading
> > to a newer version of Ninja that can handle the newer version of CMake,
> or
> > downgrading CMake back to an older version that is compatible with Ninja
> > being built without re2c being available.
> >
> > Qt 6 CI will be globally disabled in 2 weeks time if this remains
> unfixed,
> > as dependencies move quickly and I'm not in favour of retaining parts of
> > the CI system which cannot be rebuilt.
>
> This is now done, don't be like me and waste your time trying to figure
> out why
> it works when it's not supposed to work.
>

Please note that the underlying reason for Ninja failing to compile within
the CI Image build environment was never found, however it was worked
around by using a pre-built version from Craft's cache.
At some point in time in the not too distant future we will begin building
Craft caches within our Docker images as well, which may expose this
problem again.

For now though the immediate issue is resolved though yes.


>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ben
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 7:55 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Recently Sysadmin received a series of requests to rebuild the Docker
> > > images used to support KDE CI services on invent.kde.org.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately one of these rebuilds has exposed a bug of unknown origin
> > > (as it fails on our side but by all accounts works elsewhere) where
> Craft
> > > is unable to compile Ninja (with the compilation dying due to a
> Makefile
> > > syntax error that looks like a CMake bug).
> > >
> > > The failure log can be found at
> > > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-images/-/jobs/601722
> > >
> > > Subsequent to this we have also received a request to rebuild our Linux
> > > images to allow for Grantlee 5.3 to be used.
> > >
> > > Given how development is conducted within some projects that make heavy
> > > use of Grantlee, and how some of that technology is used across
> multiple
> > > platforms it would be harmful to the wider CI system and KDE Community
> to
> > > allow for Grantlee 5.3 to become available on any of our platforms.
> > >
> > > I'm therefore imposing a change freeze on all KDE CI Docker images
> until
> > > the issue with Craft/Ninja/CMake is resolved.
> > >
> > > Should any project have prematurely adopted a mandatory dependency on
> > > Grantlee 5.3 then as they have failed to follow the correct change
> process
> > > as documented on our wikis that change is deemed to be outside policy
> and
> > > should be reverted immediately.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ben Cooksley
> > > KDE Sysadmin
>
>
>
>
>
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