In order to get cross-compilers, we generate a few aports (e.g.
binutils-armhf, gcc-armhf) automatically from Alpine's aports.
pmbootstrap was already able to perform a git checkout of Alpine's
aports repository. But it needed to be manually updated. Otherwise
the `pmbootstrap aportgen` command could actually downgrade the aport
instead of updating it to the current version.
After thinking about adding a dedicated pmbootstrap command for
updating git repositories, I thought it would be better to not open
that can of worms (pmbootstrap as general git wrapper? no thanks).
The solution implemented here compares the upstream aport version of
the git checkout of a certain package (e.g. gcc for gcc-armhf) with the
version in Alpine's binary package APKINDEX. When the aport version is
lower than the binary package version, it shows the user how to update
the git repository with just one command:
pmbootstrap chroot --add=git --user -- \
git -C /mnt/pmbootstrap-git/aports_upstream pull
Changes:
* `pmb.aportgen.core.get_upstream_aport()`: new function, that returns
the absolute path to the upstream aport on disk, after checking the
version of the aport against the binary package.
* Use that new function in pmb.aportgen.gcc and pmb.aportgen.binutils
* New function `pmb.helpers.repo.alpine_apkindex_path()`: updates the
APKINDEX if necessary and returns the absolute path to the APKINDEX.
This code was basically present already, but not as function, so now
we have a bit less overhead there.
* `pmbootstrap chroot`: new `--user` argument
* `pmb.parse.apkbuild`: make pkgname check optional, as it fails with
the official gcc APKBUILD before we modify it (the current APKBUILD
parser is not meant to be perfect, as this would require a full shell
parsing implementation).
* Extended `test_aportgen.py` and enabled it by default in
`testcases_fast.sh`. Previously it was disabled due to traffic
concerns (cloning the aports repo, but then again we do a full KDE
plasma mobile installation in Travis now, so that shouldn't matter
too much).
* `testcases_fast.sh`: With "test_aport_in_sync_with_git" removed
from the disabled-by-default list (left over from timestamp based
rebuilds), there were no more test cases disabled by default. I've
changed it, so now the qemu_running_processes test case is disabled,
and added an `--all` parameter to the script to disable no test
cases. Travis runs with the `--all` parameter while it's useful to
do a quick local test without `--all` in roughly 2 minutes instead of
10.
* `aports/cross/binutils-*`: Fix `_mirror` variable to point to current
default Alpine mirror (so the aportgen testcase runs through).
### Only download APKINDEX for relevant architectures
We're downloading the APKINDEX files for all architectures supported by
postmarketOS currently (x86, x86_64, armhf, aarch64). Most of the time,
we only need it for the native and device arch, so this PR reduces the
downloaded files to what is really necessary.
### Intuitive pmbootstrap update logic
* pmb.helpers.repo.update():
* Default is updating all arches where the APKBUILD files exist
* Add existing_only parameter
* Return True when files have been downloaded
* Properly print which arches will be updated
* Print update reason only in verbose log
* Add and improve comments
* pmb.parse.arguments(), update action:
* Add --non-existing parameter
* Default for --arch is None (instead of arch.native)
* pmb.helpers.frontend.update():
* Inform about --non-existing if no APKBUILDs have been updated
Follow up to #1162.
* `pmb.build.buildinfo()`: Used to record the build environment. It is
flawed because it scans the repo APKINDEX files instead of using the
actually installed packages list. When it was implemented we were not
able to do the latter. After this is removed, `pmb.parse.depends` can
be simplified (it needs to be rewritten for #1122).
* `pmb.helpers.repo.diff()` and `pmb.helpers.repo.files()`: These were
used exclusively by `pmb.build.buildinfo()`, to learn about which
files have been changed in the local repository folder after a
package was built. The idea was, that we could find subpackages that
way. But this information is present in the installed package list as
well, which is a much cleaner approach.
Nowadays pmb.config.build_device_architectures holds the native
architecture as well, so we don't need to explicitly download the
native architecture APKINDEX.
* add my own build key
* enable the repo in the config
* update the README file
* Adjust testcase, that validates the keys and enable it in testcases_fast.sh
* Only save/load keys to/from the config file, which we ask for during
'pmbootstrap init', so the binary repo gets used even if a config file
already exists (this also removes a workaround, that deletes the work
folder path from the config dictionary before writing it)
* Download missing APKINDEX.tar.gz files with Python code, before
attempting to build packages (so we know which ones aleady exist in
the binary packages repository)
* Consider APKINDEX files older than 4 hours as outdated and download
them again (also in Python code)
* Provide 'pmbootstrap update' to force-update the APKINDEX files
* Travis: more logging output on failure
* Only allow keys from config_keys to be used by "pmbootstrap config"
* Allow to specify a custom username in "pmbootstrap init"
* Build chroots have "pmos" instead of "user" as username now
* Installation user UID is 1000 now (as in all other Linux distributions)
* Adjust autologins
* postmarketos-base: enable wheel group for sudo, removed previous sudoers file
* Implement safe upgrade path:
We save the version of the work folder format now, in $WORK/version.
When this file does not exist, it defaults to 0.
In case it does not match the currently required version
(pmb.config.work_version), then ask the user if it should
automatically be upgraded.
Changes:
* Removed the apkindex_files cache. That particular cache caused
bug #189 and didn't bring any real-world performance improvements
(tested 3x with that cache and 3x without, no significant speed
difference). I decided to remove it instead of keeping it/adding
even more code to resolve the bug.
* Fix the check for already built packages: always use the architecture,
that the package should be built for instead of the architecture of
the build environment (e.g. use armhf, even when building a noarch
package in the x86_64 chroot). This partially resolves#341.
* Make pmb.chroot.apk.install_is_necessary() more robust: If the binary
package is missing, although it should be there, print a warning and
build it with force.
This is required for developing and testing the binary repository
scripts (see #64). Changes:
* When specified, the local folder gets mounted inside the chroots
as /mnt/postmarketos-mirror
* The apkindex_files() function outputs the correct path to the local
repository (it does *not* hash the URL in that case, which would
be wrong)
* /etc/apk/repositories: when the pmOS mirror is a local folder,
the path "/mnt/postmarketos-mirror" gets added to that file instead
of the outside path (so apk finds it properly inside the chroot)
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.
* 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.