On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 13:58 -0600, Joshua Watt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:50 PM Steve Sakoman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:09 AM Richard Purdie
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > As the project develops, some tests are valuable and some become less 
> > > valuable
> > > over time.
> > > 
> > > When we first started reproducible builds work, testing reproducibility 
> > > heavily
> > > across multiple distros highlighted some unusual bugs and let us improve 
> > > things.
> > > We therefore currently run a-full with the targets:
> > > 
> > > reproducibile-centos
> > > reproducibile-debian
> > > reproducibile-fedora
> > > reproducibile-ubuntu
> > > 
> > > I've noticed we pretty much always see the same set of failures with these
> > > targets now, i.e. if one fails, they all fail the same way.
> > > 
> > > Those targets are heavy builds which don't reuse sstate for one of the 
> > > build
> > > streams and hence load the autobuilder heavily.
> > > 
> > > I'm thinking they've served their purpose and that a-full should go back 
> > > to just
> > > the randomly selected reproduiclbe target.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone feel we shouldn't do that?
> > 
> > I support this.  It has been quite some time since dunfell encountered
> > a distro specific reproducibility issue.
> 
> I agree. I assume the change is simple enough to make that we can
> bring them back easily if we think it might be helpful is some
> scenario?

Yes, I'll leave the targets available, we'd just run them manually or re-enable
them but I'd take them off a-full for now.

> Also, just to clarify, those workers will still contribute to the
> initial sstate, so they will still help find cross-host reproducible
> problems, they just might not find it themselves?

Correct, yes.

Cheers,

Richard


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