[Pkg-javascript-devel] Rebuilding of nodejs reverse dependencies

[Jérémy Lal]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:01 PM Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:01 PM Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 11:42 AM Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 11:32 AM Nilesh Patra <nilesh at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>>> On 3/15/22 5:21 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>>>> > i've setup a specific salsa ci pipeline for this:
>>>> > https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/nodejs/-/pipelines/358409 <
>>>> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/nodejs/-/pipelines/358409>
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>>>> > As you can see, it has jobs for rebuilding reverse build-depends.
>>>> > It is not meant to be triggered continuously (because it consumes a
>>>> lot of resources),
>>>> > one has to trigger it by hand, which I have done just before.
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>>>> > I'd extend the list of jobs to the list of 1677 source packages
>>>> build-depending on nodejs, but
>>>> > it might consume too much time and space on salsa-ci...
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>>>> This is cool, but
>>>> Please consider asking salsa CI admins if it is okay to trigger builds
>>>> for large volumes of reverse dependencies.
>>>> Several months back (IIRC) something similar happened in the ruby-team
>>>> and the runners choked because of that
>>>> and even salsa went down :)
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>>> Yes,
>>> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues/291
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>>> I'm waiting for an answer.
>>> I only tried the rebuild of ~30 reverse build-deps of libnode-dev for
>>> now.
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>> The answer from the salsa admin is no.
>> I'll do the minimal solution, then: fix libnode-dev reverse build-deps,
>> and let other breakage happen in unstable.
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> That is, unless someone knows where I can get a spare salsa ci runner.
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So I ended up installing a gitlab-runner with nspawn-runner and a
semi-active server I maintain.
I documented the process here:
https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc/CustomRunners/SystemdNspawnRunner

salsa's driving that runner to rebuild the thousands of packages now.
Minimal build time is 1 minute, so it should take about two days to rebuild
the whole.

After that, anyone knowing gitlab API and bugs.debian.org API could help to
open FTBFS bugs ?

Jérémy


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