[Mesa-dev] Appveyor on github.com/mesa3d

[Jose Fonseca]

On 16/11/17 15:56, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> On Thursday, 2017-11-16 14:20:03 +0000, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>> On 16/11/17 14:08, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>>> On 15/11/17 12:20, Eric Engestrom wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 2017-11-15 10:35:04 +0000, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>>>>> I could post a remark on AppVeyor's forums, but it sounds from the
>>>>> logs the issue could be on our (freedesktop.org's) side.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've reconfigured AppVeyor to use
>>>>> https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa.git/ instead of
>>>>> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa .  Perhaps fewer things can go
>>>>> wrong when using HTTP.
>>>>
>>>> I seem to remember cloning through http was much more cpu intensive,
>>>> which was an issue on the fdo servers; I'm not sure we want to do that
>>>> for each commit now.
>>>>
>>>> We can keep that for a while though, if only to see if it makes
>>>> a difference in appveyor.
>>>
>>> HTTP doesn't seem to make a difference:
>>>
>>>     https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mesa3d/mesa/build/6174
>>>
>>> I'll revert to git protocol.
>>>
>>> Still no solution for these errors though.
>>
>> I just had an idea:  is anongit.fdo an alias to git.fdo, or a separate
>> server?
> 
> from a quick `dig`, git.fdo is on kemper, while anongit.fdo is on molly
> 
>>
>> Could it be the problem here is that whatever is syncing git -> anongit
>> leaves the tree temporarily inconsistent?  If so I wonder if anything
>> changed recently.
> 
> Could be, although git objects should remain valid forever since we
> don't rewrite history, so the only thing I could see would be a sync
> issue if molly copies the index and starts serving it before the objects
> are copied.
> 
> fdo admins: is the sync between kemper and molly done via git, or some
> external tool like rsync?
> 
> Jose, I think making appveyor use github might be a good idea regardless
> of the fdo sync issue, as it would offload the per-commit-clone work,
> and that's exactly the kind of things CDNs like github are for.
> 

Unfortunately the build failures keep getting more frequent.

Daniel, can you help me setup AppVeyor on https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa 
?  I have member access, but it looks like admin access is required to 
hookup AppVeyor.

While we're at it, we should do the same for 
https://github.com/mesa3d/piglit

Jose