TLDR: Always rebuild/install packages when something changed when executing "pmbootstrap install/initfs/flash", more speed in dependency resolution.
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pmbootstrap has already gotten some support for "timestamp based rebuilds", which modifies the logic for when packages should be rebuilt. It doesn't only consider packages outdated with old pkgver/pkgrel combinations, but also packages, where a source file has a newer timestamp, than the built package has.
I've found out, that this can lead to more rebuilds than expected. For example, when you check out the pmbootstrap git repository again into another folder, although you have already built packages. Then all files have the timestamp of the checkout, and the packages will appear to be outdated. While this is not largely a concern now, this will become a problem once we have a binary package repository, because then the packages from the binary repo will always seem to be outdated, if you just freshly checked out the repository.
To combat this, git gets asked if the files from the aport we're looking at are in sync with upstream, or not. Only when the files are not in sync with upstream and the timestamps of the sources are newer, a rebuild gets triggered from now on.
In case this logic should fail, I've added an option during "pmbootstrap init" where you can enable or disable the "timestamp based rebuilds" option.
In addition to that, this commit also works on fixing #120: packages do not get updated in "pmbootstrap install" after they have been rebuilt. For this to work, we specify all packages explicitly for abuild, instead of letting abuild do the resolving. This feature will also work with the "timestamp based rebuilds".
This commit also fixes the working_dir argument in pmb.helpers.run.user, which was simply ignored before.
Finally, the performance of the dependency resolution is faster again (when compared to the current version in master), because the parsed apkbuilds and finding the aport by pkgname gets cached during one pmbootstrap call (in args.cache, which also makes it easy to put fake data there in testcases).
The new dependency resolution code can output lots of verbose messages for debugging by specifying the `-v` parameter. The meaning of that changed, it used to output the file names where log messages come from, but no one seemed to use that anyway.
...instead of running apk every time to get the list of installed
packages and their versions. The internal package database from
apk has the same format, as the extracted APKINDEX file (except
that it has more key-value pairs, which we ignore/do not need
right now). So the APKINDEX code has been extended to parse both
tar-packed APKINDEX files and regular text files in the APKINDEX
format.
This is required for #108, for a better detection of outdated
packages (because the internal package database saves the
package's timestamp, too). A nice benefit is, that this is faster
than calling apk every time and it doesn't fill up the log as much.
I've also used this improved function for determining the apk
version (for the outdated version check), and I've deleted
pmb.parse.other.package_split(), as it is not needed anymore.
* Fix: Do not swallow traces when crashing before log init (e.g.
during argument parsing)
* Show a link to the troubleshooting page, when an error happens
* (Formatting done by autopep8 in pmb/config/init.py)
Previously, if you passed something like ~/build to the init function
for work directory, it would create a directory, .\~/ in the current
working directory instead of resolving ~/ to the user's home directory.
This allow allows using ../ to specify a path.
* Minimum version: 2.7.2 (which fixes two CVEs)
* Check the minimum apk version before doing something with apk and
before entering the chroot manually (previously, it has just checked
the apk-tools-static version, which gets used to set up the chroot)
* Reword the message for an outdated APK version. Most likely it is
just the outdated http cache, instead of a man-in-the-middle attack.
See also:
b849b481a0
* New commandline parameter --mirror-pmOS, where the binary repository
URL for postmarketOS can be specified (empty by default as of now,
this will be filled with the real URL once the repo works)
* Do not build packages, when they are in the binary repository and
the version of the package in the binary repository is up-to-date.
* Add a testcase for pmb.build.is_necessary().
...even if the pkgver and pkgrel have *not* changed. This should
make development much more intuitive. The detection works by looking
at the last modified timestamps, just like `make` does it.
* pmb/challenge/apk.py had to be renamed to pmb/challenge/apk_file.py,
so the "internal" functions of that file could be accessed, while
still providing the short notation pmb.challenge.apk().
* zap asks for each buildroot_* chroot, if you want to remove it, not
only for the one with the device arch
* add new pmb.chroot.tempfolder() function, that creates a temporary
folder, that belongs to "user" and deletes it, if it already exists.
this function gets used in a few challenge testcases.
When an APKINDEX contained a package with multiple versions,
pmbootstrap did not use the last version to determine if the
package is out of date (regression from af8c9fcf5b).
Previously, it was only possible to get information about one
package inside the APKINDEX at a time.
This is needed for #64 to verify the APKINDEX.
Please note, that this implementation is actually slower, than
the previous one. But the code is more readable and it makes
caching possible (which will speed up the APKINDEX massively,
especially for the buildinfo.json file generation!)
...and some smaller fixes:
* make the diff output easier to read
* verify, that only .apk, .buildinfo.json and the APKINDEX have
changed inside the local repository folder. Because the file
names of these changes will be used to release files from
staging to release.
The following message will be printed out now, in case you attempt
to build a package for an architecture, that is not specified in
the "arch=..." line inside the APKBUILD:
ERROR: Architecture 'aarch64' is not supported for this package.
Please add it to the 'arch=' line inside the APKBUILD and try again:
/path/to/APKBUILD
* The supported architectures are inside the config now
* Symlinks get created for that list of supported architectures now.
* During initialization, the architecture from the selected device
gets checked against the list of supported architectures. When
it is not included, a meaningful exception gets raised.
* the aportgen and (cross-compiler) build tests make use of the
new variable now (they had armhf and aarch64 hardcoded previously).
* Fix hardcoded `armhf` in pmb/aportgen/binutils.py
* Generate aports: `binutils-aarch64`, `musl-aarch64`, `gcc-aarch64`
* Distccd: Remember the cross-compiler architecture (currently armhf
or aarch64), that the current distccd is running as, and restart
distccd with the correct architecture, in case a different arch
is needed than what it is currently running as. (Depending on the
cross-compiler arch, the PATH variable gets adjusted before
starting distccd)
* Testcases: add aport generation for aarch64, add cross-compiling
to aarch64
* pmb/parse/arch.py: Add aarch64 to the mapping
* Two new functions for getting a list of files and their timestamps
in the repo, and diffing that information to get a list of changed
files: pmb.helpers.repo.files() and pmb.helpers.repo.diff().
(I've put it in the helpers folder, because it is not specific to
one chroot, but to all chroots at once.)
* pmbootstrap challenge (new command introduced a few commits back to
verify, that the contents of an APK file are deterministic) uses
these functions to a) support subpackages and b) optionally
output a list of changed files (this gets used in the pmbuilder
script, which lives outside of this repository).
This commit is progress for #64 again.
We have "lazy reproducible builds" now. What I mean by that is, that
the resulting "apk" archive is not fully reproducible, but all binaries
inside it are. This is necessary to kick-off the binary repo, which is
in turn required to get the testsuite going on Travis. Read #64 for more
information.
Usage:
```
pmbootstrap build hello-world --buildinfo
pmbootstrap challenge /tmp/path/to/hello-world-1-r2.apk
```
The "--buildinfo" parameter generates a "buildinfo.json", which contains
the versions of all dependencies. It is not very optimizied, so this
is a performance bottleneck and takes 10 seconds (which is quite much
considering that the hello-world package builds in less than a second).
This can be improved in the future, and then the buildinfo parameter
may become the default.
Oliver Smith
Martijn Braam
Pablo Castellano
Clayton Craft