bitcoin/ci
MarcoFalke f1ce67f09f
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#19013: test: add v0.20.1, v0.21.0 and v22.0 to backwards compatibility test
24cec4b5c0 test: Fix intermittent test failure in feature_backwards_compatibility (MarcoFalke)
d8b705f1ca test: previous releases: add v22.0 (Sjors Provoost)
40849eebd9 test: bump sandbox argument minimum version (Sjors Provoost)
8a57a06a50 test: previous releases: add v0.21.0 (Sjors Provoost)
8cba75f5fd test: v0.20.1 backwards compatibility (Sjors Provoost)
0e4b695b6a test: backwards compatibility: misc fixes (Sjors Provoost)
76557cbe4c test: Remove i686 from test/get_previous_releases.py (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  This also simplifies the tests a bit.

ACKs for top commit:
  ryanofsky:
    Code review ACK 24cec4b5c0. Only change since last review is rebasing and adding comment and whitelist args.

Tree-SHA512: 85a603ddd70fd8f0180d00fb84eb2ad2f92d6199b7d3f7c1abd660bfba53f869faf40f1a4183a8ce15dbd496ee3132d879c1258651c9d443ece69e5fe328bd26
2022-02-24 17:42:28 +01:00
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lint scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2021-12-30 19:36:57 +02:00
retry build: update retry to current version 2019-10-30 18:49:57 -04:00
test Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#19013: test: add v0.20.1, v0.21.0 and v22.0 to backwards compatibility test 2022-02-24 17:42:28 +01:00
lint_run_all.sh scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00
README.md doc: move doc to ci readme 2020-06-19 10:44:00 -04:00
test_run_all.sh scripted-diff: Bump copyright headers 2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00

CI Scripts

This directory contains scripts for each build step in each build stage.

Running a Stage Locally

Be aware that the tests will be built and run in-place, so please run at your own risk. If the repository is not a fresh git clone, you might have to clean files from previous builds or test runs first.

The ci needs to perform various sysadmin tasks such as installing packages or writing to the user's home directory. While most of the actions are done inside a docker container, this is not possible for all. Thus, cache directories, such as the depends cache, previous release binaries, or ccache, are mounted as read-write into the docker container. While it should be fine to run the ci system locally on you development box, the ci scripts can generally be assumed to have received less review and testing compared to other parts of the codebase. If you want to keep the work tree clean, you might want to run the ci system in a virtual machine with a Linux operating system of your choice.

To allow for a wide range of tested environments, but also ensure reproducibility to some extent, the test stage requires docker to be installed. To install all requirements on Ubuntu, run

sudo apt install docker.io bash

To run the default test stage,

./ci/test_run_all.sh

To run the test stage with a specific configuration,

FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh

Configurations

The test files (FILE_ENV) are constructed to test a wide range of configurations, rather than a single pass/fail. This helps to catch build failures and logic errors that present on platforms other than the ones the author has tested.

Some builders use the dependency-generator in ./depends, rather than using the system package manager to install build dependencies. This guarantees that the tester is using the same versions as the release builds, which also use ./depends.

If no FILE_ENV has been specified or values are left out, 00_setup_env.sh is used as the default configuration with fallback values.

It is also possible to force a specific configuration without modifying the file. For example,

MAKEJOBS="-j1" FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh

The files starting with 0n (n greater than 0) are the scripts that are run in order.

Cache

In order to avoid rebuilding all dependencies for each build, the binaries are cached and re-used when possible. Changes in the dependency-generator will trigger cache-invalidation and rebuilds as necessary.