aconadi-contacts dependeny on kmime on Windows

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 1:07 AM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:14:08 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 2:38 AM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 10:36:27 CEST Christoph Feck wrote:
> > > > Hello PIM developers,
> > > >
> > > > I see akonadi-contacts regularily failing on CI, because the version of
> > > > KMime doesn't match, see
> > > > https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/view/Everything%20-%20stable-kf5-> > > qt5/ job/akonadi-contacts/job/stable-kf5-qt5%20WindowsMSVCQt5.14/
> > > >
> > > > Could someone please check the build metadata for akonadi-contacts?
> > >
> > > This looks more complicated than just a missing dependency info if I read
> > > the logs correctly:
> > > - KMime is retrieved as a dependency (ie. build metadata should be
> > > correct). - There is no Windows CI build for KMime!? That makes it hard
> > > to check which version was actually built, or where KMime comes from at
> > > all here.
> > It is perfectly fine for a project to depend on a project that no job
> > exists for.
> >
> > This scenario is covered by the Dependency Build jobs, which build
> > every project that the jobs in a given Product need.
> > This is how Frameworks are provided to the
> > Plasma/Applications/Extragear jobs (as they don't rely on the
> > Frameworks jobs, they're separate)
> >
> > > - Looking at past CI state, it alternates between working and the KMime
> > > being too old error every few builds. It breaks when the dependency
> > > version is bumped, but then gets back to working without any code change.
> >
> > The Dependency Build jobs run once a week, which would explain this -
> > it breaks when it bumps, then after a few days the Dependency Build
> > comes through and updates KMime, after which the next build of
> > akonadi-contacts succeeds.
>
> I see, that explains the status quo. It still seems useful to have a CI build
> for KMime too, given we expect it to work, so better catch issues early:
> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-tooling/-/merge_requests/84

Thanks for that, i've now merged it in and have started the first set
of job runs on the CI system.

>
> Regards,
> Volker
>

Cheers,
Ben

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