The exact distro name should not be important. Also, it is easy to find
out, if needed. Thus, remove it to avoid bloat and maintenance overhead
having to keep it in sync.
This allows to drop unused templates, such as
cirrus_ephemeral_worker_template_env, or container_depends_template.
Also, ccache_cache, previous_releases_cache, and
base_depends_built_cache can be dropped, because the caching is done in
container volumes on the self-hosted runners.
faaa0794b2 refactor: Remove PERSISTENT_WORKER_* yaml templates (MarcoFalke)
fa1d8955f6 ci: Move tidy to persistent worker (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Cirrus CI will be capping the free compute soon. For now, switch more tasks to persistent worker, as recommended by Cirrus CI.
(See slightly related discussion in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098)
Also, add more docs.
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This should fix the macOS-cross build on Cirrus CI containers.
Locally this was already working, because the SDK was cached in
/ci_container_base/ in the image, which is also the folder used for a
later CI run.
However, on Cirrus CI, when using an image *and* a custom BASE_ROOT_DIR,
the SDK will not be found in /ci_base_install/, nor in BASE_ROOT_DIR.
Fix this by normalizing *all* folders to /ci_container_base/.
9658d0dc17 ci: Run "macOS native x86_64" job on GitHub Actions (Hennadii Stepanov)
Pull request description:
From https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098:
> Thus, someone would have to sponsor an amount of roughly 5kUSD/mo for those two tasks.
> If the goal is to stay on a free plan, I think the only option is GitHub Actions CI.
---
**IMPORTANT NOTE**. We currently ship macOS release binaries for both architectures: `x86_64` and `arm64`. If this PR gets merged, only `x86_64` architecture will be tested on CI, which implies some [drawbacks](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28187#issuecomment-1658077549).
However, it has never been the case that our CI tested both architectures simultaneously. And we hope that GitHub Actions will soon host macOS `arm64` runners.
Historically, we moved from `x86_64` to `arm64` in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26388 less than a year ago.
---
Security concerns:
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098#issuecomment-1651432106
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098#issuecomment-1651688197
`GITHUB_TOKEN` permissions (from the build log in my personal repo):
```
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8313534Z ##[group]GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8314113Z Contents: read
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8314608Z Metadata: read
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8314957Z Packages: read
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8315233Z ##[endgroup]
```
Comparison of resources:
| Resource | Current, Cirrus CI | Suggested, GitHub Actions |
|---|:-:|:-:|
| CPU | 4 | 4 \*\* |
| RAM, GB | 8 | 14 |
**\*\* NOTE**: However, [docs](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#supported-runners-and-hardware-resources) are mentioning:
> 3-core CPU (x86_64)
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* PERSISTENT_WORKER_TEMPLATE_ENV is not needed at all, because
RESTART_CI_DOCKER_BEFORE_RUN is already set on the persistent worker.
* PERSISTENT_WORKER_TEMPLATE can be replaced by pinning the
previous_releases task to a type of worker. This should make the CI
performance more consistent.
This change aims to:
1) Remove our own `CCACHE_SIZE` environment variable that violates
Ccache's `CCACHE_*` namespace.
2) Introduce the `CCACHE_MAXSIZE` environment variable that is
documented since v3.3, which makes its usage consistent with other ones,
such as `CCACHE_DIR` and `CCACHE_NOHASHDIR`.
fa70e85e00 ci: Bump macOS cross task to ubuntu:jammy (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
It shouldn't matter what underlying image is used for the task, because the compiler is fully provided by `./depends/`.
So just use the latest Ubuntu LTS, which is also most likely the OS that is used by people cross-compiling, if there are any at all.
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This is required for the next commit. Also, drop CI_RETRY_EXE before
"dnf install", because it requires getopt, which will only be installed
later on via util-linux
123043e99c ci: Bump lint task image to Ubuntu Jammy (Hennadii Stepanov)
9b86114058 ci: Use pyenv's `python-build` to install Python in lint task (Hennadii Stepanov)
Pull request description:
This PR:
- is an alternative to bitcoin/bitcoin#26581 and bitcoin/bitcoin#26637
- closesbitcoin/bitcoin#26548
Key advantages of this PR over others:
- it uses pyenv's `python-build` [standalone](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/tree/master/plugins/python-build#using-python-build-standalone)
- requires no additional computational resources
Note for testing. The lint task must success regardless of whether the `python_cache` is populated or invalidated.
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