GitLab storage provides two mirrors by default:
* https://gitlab.com/user/repo/raw/master/fdroid/repo
* https://user.gitlab.io/repo/fdroid/repo
While the F-Droid client will happily fetch the index*.jar files and
parse them from either of these two mirrors, only the GitLab Pages
mirror will serve files with the correct mime type. Many repos
tend to put index.html files (and associated .css/.js/image files) in
the root of a repository to provide information about that repo.
One example is RepoMaker. The way in which RepoMaker decides the public
URL of a repo, is to take the first mirror in the list. This means that
the URL which RepoMaker directs people to for GitLab storage returns a
.html document in text/plain, which means that it is not rendered.
We could change RepoMaker so that it takes the last mirror, and then it
woruld work. However there is something nice about the first mirror in a
list being the most authoritative (even though the mirror order doesn't
- and perhaps shouldn't have any specific meaning).
There have been frequent failures on import, some bugs suggest that it
might be because these dirs are missing. They would get wiped by a
`git clean -fdx`.
ERROR: Could not build app org.fdroid.fdroid due to unknown error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/jenkins/userContent/reproducible/reproducible_setup_fdroid_build_environment/fdroidserver/build.py", line 1202, in main
options.onserver, options.refresh):
File "/var/lib/jenkins/userContent/reproducible/reproducible_setup_fdroid_build_environment/fdroidserver/build.py", line 972, in trybuild
build_server(app, build, vcs, build_dir, output_dir, log_dir, force)
File "/var/lib/jenkins/userContent/reproducible/reproducible_setup_fdroid_build_environment/fdroidserver/build.py", line 82, in build_server
logging.debug(_('Fetched buildserverid from VM: ') + buildserverid)
TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
We remove the whole "build" directory while cleaning source code tree
because Gradle can leave there files even after "gradle clean". But some
projects (Mozilla Fennec) actually have useful stuff checked into VCS
under the "build" directory.
Remove only those subdirectories that we known for sure are leftovers
from Gradle.
Fixesfdroid/fdroidserver#438.
When `fdroid build` is run using the buildserver, it should fetch the
buildserverid on the first build.
Seems this was really a silly bug in 837fc99d74
Since `fdroid build --all` can run a long time, knowing when that command
was started will be very useful information for figuring out what the build
server is doing.
GitHub only allows an SSH key to be used as a Deploy Key for a single repo.
That means, each nightly build repo on GitHub/Travis must have its own
debug keystore.
This needed now because the buildserver is hanging so often, that we are
often going a week or more without any builds published. Perhaps this is
only temporary, or maybe we will want to flush this feature out more as a
standard thing. But we really need it for now to at least get some builds
out on a daily basis.
Since the website deploy is also triggered by this cycle, making the build
finish more often means the website will be published more often.
