On a slightly separate note (may be Jay knows the answer): I noticed that we only have centos-6 and debian-8 deploy images. Is there any technical reason for not making them (and limiting our ability to do automatic testing) or it just never been implemented?
Thanks Cos On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 09:09PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > Moving a bit of the topics of pure polishing of rough edges, I wanted to bring > up the idea of automatically producing the package repos of the nightly > builds. With a few lines of shell we can do it as demonstrated in > > https://github.com/c0s/dumb-ass-scripts/blob/master/gen-apt.sh > and > https://github.com/c0s/dumb-ass-scripts/blob/master/gen-yum.sh > > Considering that we are dealing here with a matrix of OSes in this case, it > won't be perhaps ideal to roll this functionality into the main build. Keeping > it as an aux helper seems like a better idea. > There's of course disk-consumption issue, but we might be able to solve it. > > Thoughts? > Cos > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:34PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I've been trying to replicate our CI elsewhere and here's a couple of > > observations and proposed fixes that might do such things easier in the > > future. > > > > 1. Running build as root inside of the docker container. > > > > This seems like a real issue, especially considering that we have always > > advocated to stay away from such practice. Unfortunately, adding > > -u jenkins:jenkins > > to docker run snags on a couple of points > > > > 2. Shared Gradle directory shouldn't belong to root, or at least should be > > writable for everyone. > > > > This is covered in BIGTOP-2171 (appreciate the review) and has caused > > user > > confusions like BIGTOP-2184 > > > > 3. One perhaps last issue here is the discrepancy between the user ids, > > where > > jenkins on centos and ubuntu have different UID (BIGTOP-2187) > > > > I think with these three in place, we should be able to start using > > un-privileged user for the builds and also for the cluster testing. > > > > Thoughts? > > Cos > > > > > >
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