Ok, the hack has its price. The uid is not always the same and therefore
builds may randomly fail:

https://builds.apache.org/job/logging-log4net/view/change-requests/job/PR-8/9/console

This is a call for help. Does anyone have a good idea how this issue can be
solved for good?

2017-07-09 17:37 GMT+02:00 Dominik Psenner <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I finally managed to build the netstandard assemblies in our jenkins
> pipeline. It was a tough task and the solution feels like a hack, but it
> works. See:
>
> https://builds.apache.org/job/logging-log4net/job/develop/
>
> The problem was that dotnet always attempts to find and store dependent
> assemblies in the users home directory, which obviously failed for several
> reasons:
>
> 1. a user with the jenkins uid did not exist within the docker container
> 2. even if the user existed with the jenkins uid it cannot map to the
> default home location of a user (/home/jenkins) because it is being
> overridden when the docker container is run and the workspace is mounted
>
> So the solution was to create a user that has the uid and gid of the
> jenkins user and let the home be not /home/jenkins but rather something
> else. I decided that /var/workspaces/jenkins would do just like any other
> place.
>
> Now on to the next issue:
>
> I tried to run the tests against the built netstandard assemblies but
> while doing so I noticed that there is no nant target for it, nore a
> documentation on how the test project can be run. Does anyone out there
> know the best practice on how to run the tests included in this project?
>
> log4net/netstandard/log4net.tests/log4net.tests.csproj
>
> Cheers
> --
> Dominik Psenner
>



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Dominik Psenner

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