Sometimes, a build process requires newer versions of build tools than are
available in Debian/stable. Oftentimes, using the package straight from
Debian/testing works fine when a package is not available as a backport.
libtool 2.4.6 is needed for building VLC, so it is one example of this.
The preferences file sets up the apt "pinning" so that all updates are not
installed from testing, only the packages that are requested by adding
"/testing" after then package name.
closes#224
In order to install a package from jessie-backports, apt-get has to be told
to get it from there rather than the main archive. It will not use
jessie-backports by default even if it is added as an apt source.
closes#224
buildserver running in qemu/kvm to support KVM on KVM
jenkins.debian.net runs in QEMU/KVM instances, so in order to run the F-Droid buildserver there, it needs to work inside of a KVM guest. The best way I found to do that is to create QEMU/KVM instances via KVM's "nested" virtualization support. This collection of commits enables using QEMU/KVM as the buildserver when `./makebuildserver` detects that it is running inside of KVM. Otherwise, the old behavior is default: running in VirtualBox.
I have run these tests inside of ubuntu/16.04 on bare metal, which uses VirtualBox, and ubuntu/16.04 KVM guest, which uses QEMU/KVM. It'll also run on the Guardian Project jenkins box, which is Debian/jessie.
@mvdan @CiaranG @krt
See merge request !168
I think the `android update sdk` tool is installing all of the m2 files
that are present in the temp cache, and it seems to do it in order of
newest to oldest. Well done, and I thought that tool couldn't get any
worse. So only include the latest version of android_m2repository*.zip in
the temp cache.
The Android SDK by default includes some Google repositories of their
proprietary SDKs. We of course do not want that stuff ever. We also do
not need the emulator images since this process does not currently install
or run an emulator.
This is the last thing using Chef, which adds a lot of time to the time it
takes to fully provision the buildserver. This slows down development on
the things we are actually using, like running all builds on
jenkins.debian.net.
#210#165
This does not have the careful result rechecking that chef has, when it
installs each package in the list one at a time. So to help with failures
caused by a package failing to download, first try downloading all the
package, then run the install. The install pass will try to download any
missing packages.
Really, this should use ansible or perhaps chef again since those include
lots of tricks around this stuff.
This forces the release channel and version of chef-solo to install on the
guest VM. I was getting really massive, odd stacktraces without specifying
this, and chef is only used for Kivy now anyway.
The technique where /var/cache/apt is mounted as a shared folder conflicts
with vagrant-cachier's workings. Therefore, ignore vagrant-cachier if the
user selects ./makebuildserver's custom apt cache. The shared folder way
has the advantage for CI builds of storing the cache outside of
VAGRANT_HOME, which is set to be in the git project. That gets wiped by
`git clean -fdx` on each CI build.
Add ndk r11c
NDK11 is required by some apps (some versions of VLC) which will not build with r10e or r12b. As always, please test this before merging: I havent added a NDK before.
See merge request !155
This reverts commit 82d09560c6.
It doesn't work - the setup scripts are expecting a ".bin" file (which
is apparently a 7z archive), but what's actually got is a ".zip".
Conflicts:
buildserver/provision-android-ndk
Vagrantfile is now committed and not changed between configurations. It is
configed by translating the python config file's dict to a YAML file, which
Vagrantfile now loads and uses. This makes it a lot easier for vagrant
users and python programmers to understand, and hopefully makes it easier
to maintain and test with.
Python can easily output dicts as YAML, and a Vagrantfile is a ruby script,
which can easily read YAML. Going this route means that Vagrantfile can
ultimately be committed to git, and the configuration will happen all via
Python dicts output as YAML. That makes it drastically easier to follow
the code, and to make modifications.
easy_install does not provide any download caching, while pip does. This
also moves the python module installing a shell script that takes python
packages as args. That will allow for future uses like allowing app
metadata to include pip modules that they need.
This makes it so there is only a single `apt-get install` command run,
instead of one command per-package like with the chef script. It also adds
`apt-get upgrade` to make sure that the base box is fully up-to-date.
This is part of the effort to remove moving parts from the whole build
server setup. Why wrap shell scripts in ruby and chef if we can just
directly run a shell script?
Note that the apt packages are split into two halves, because it takes
too long (on 64 bit!) to install them all. The sensible fix would be
to simply up the timeout on the package installation section, but this
is completely broken in chef.
Also, remove jdk7 as it will become unused. We added jdk8 for
retrolambda, and now that we will use jdk8 as the default, jdk7 is
unnecessary as retrolambda can work fine with just jdk8.
This removes it from the buildserver, and the new CI image also only has
jdk8 from jessie-backports.
Fixes#185.
`fdroid build` handles setting the NDK env vars since the NDK version can
change depending on the app being build. Unlike ANDROID_HOME, there is no
single global NDK location. The NDK installs are all versioned.
This was not using anything special from chef, so do it in a shell script
instead. This makes the script easier for the python/shell people, and
probably uses less memory, since chef is a memory hog. This might even
make the provision go faster since it uploads the whole script as a file to
the VM, then runs it there. I think chef sends each command via SSH.
