Google is making gradle automatically download Android SDK components that
are needed by the build, but not already present. We need to support that
since it would be a lot of work to fight it. Plus, since each build starts
from the fresh snapshot, it should not be such a big deal to let each
build install stuff during the process.
closes#268
The ever troublesome gpjenkins box needs to use HTTPS mirrors. Plus it
improves the security of the buildserver, since there have been CVEs that
HTTPS would protect against:
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3733
Google is pushing gradle towards downloading all the SDK components that it
needs, rather than having a preconfigured SDK installed. The buildserver
strongly supports the old model, with added checksum checking even. We can
still support the old model by pre-configuring the SDK and locking it down
as root. This can then also support the new model by setting the file perms
so that new packages can be auto-installed, but they cannot overwrite any
packages that come pre-installed and pre-verified.
fdroiddata!2096
closes#247
gradle will now automatically download and install missing bits of the
Android SDK. While we prefer to have the SDK packages fully verified, we
should allow this behavior on the buildserver to ensure that builds work
even when the buildserver can't be updated. Since each build starts from a
clean snapshot, this auto-installed build-tools will only be used for the
single build, so it won't affect other apps.
The new ConstraintLayout library in Android Support has some new custom way
of handling the license. I suspect that they are going to use this new way
with all of the bits that gradle downloads. We also have to support it for
apps that use it, including soon fdroidclient.
fdroiddata!2094
ci-images!1
These should be reasonably backwards compatible, and there is already
automake1.11 for those that need a version that old. As for cmake, there
are five apps that seem to it:
com.amaze.filemanager
org.dolphinemu.dolphinemu
org.navitproject.navit
org.yabause.android
org.videolan.vlc
It looks like VLC is the only app that is currently building and using
cmake in the most recent releases. Some of them used to use cmake, but no
longer.
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.
