1. Updated hgrepo to work with mozilla-beta, mozilla-esr60 and project branches (just in case)
2. Presquashed commits, so we only submit one.
3. Replaced 'which' with 'command -v' to avoid future shellcheck issues.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1582
Currently, many tasks fetch content from the Internets. A problem with
that is fetching from the Internets is unreliable: servers may have
outages or be slow; content may disappear or change out from under us.
The unreliability of 3rd party services poses a risk to Firefox CI.
If services aren't available, we could potentially not run some CI tasks.
In the worst case, we might not be able to release Firefox. That would
be bad. In fact, as I write this, gmplib.org has been unavailable for
~24 hours and Firefox CI is unable to retrieve the GMP source code.
As a result, building GCC toolchains is failing.
A solution to this is to make tasks more hermetic by depending on
fewer network services (which by definition aren't reliable over time
and therefore introduce instability).
This commit attempts to mitigate some external service dependencies
by introducing the *fetch* task kind.
The primary goal of the *fetch* kind is to obtain remote content and
re-expose it as a task artifact. By making external content available
as a cached task artifact, we allow dependent tasks to consume this
content without touching the service originally providing that
content, thus eliminating a run-time dependency and making tasks more
hermetic and reproducible over time.
We introduce a single "fetch-url" "using" flavor to define tasks that
fetch single URLs and then re-expose that URL as an artifact. Powering
this is a new, minimal "fetch" Docker image that contains a
"fetch-content" Python script that does the work for us.
We have added tasks to fetch source archives used to build the GCC
toolchains.
Fetching remote content and re-exposing it as an artifact is not
very useful by itself: the value is in having tasks use those
artifacts.
We introduce a taskgraph transform that allows tasks to define an
array of "fetches." Each entry corresponds to the name of a "fetch"
task kind. When present, the corresponding "fetch" task is added as a
dependency. And the task ID and artifact path from that "fetch" task
is added to the MOZ_FETCHES environment variable of the task depending
on it. Our "fetch-content" script has a "task-artifacts"
sub-command that tasks can execute to perform retrieval of all
artifacts listed in MOZ_FETCHES.
To prove all of this works, the code for fetching dependencies when
building GCC toolchains has been updated to use `fetch-content`. The
now-unused legacy code has been deleted.
This commit improves the reliability and efficiency of GCC toolchain
tasks. Dependencies now all come from task artifacts and should always
be available in the common case. In addition, `fetch-content` downloads
and extracts files concurrently. This makes it faster than the serial
application which we were previously using.
There are some things I don't like about this commit.
First, a new Docker image and Python script for downloading URLs feels
a bit heavyweight. The Docker image is definitely overkill as things
stand. I can eventually justify it because I want to implement support
for fetching and repackaging VCS repositories and for caching Debian
packages. These will require more packages than what I'm comfortable
installing on the base Debian image, therefore justifying a dedicated
image.
The `fetch-content static-url` sub-command could definitely be
implemented as a shell script. But Python is readily available and
is more pleasant to maintain than shell, so I wrote it in Python.
`fetch-content task-artifacts` is more advanced and writing it in
Python is more justified, IMO. FWIW, the script is Python 3 only,
which conveniently gives us access to `concurrent.futures`, which
facilitates concurrent download.
`fetch-content` also duplicates functionality found elsewhere.
generic-worker's task payload supports a "mounts" feature which
facilitates downloading remote content, including from a task
artifact. However, this feature doesn't exist on docker-worker.
So we have to implement downloading inside the task rather than
at the worker level. I concede that if all workers had generic-worker's
"mounts" feature and supported concurrent download, `fetch-content`
wouldn't need to exist.
`fetch-content` also duplicates functionality of
`mach artifact toolchain`. I probably could have used
`mach artifact toolchain` instead of writing
`fetch-content task-artifacts`. However, I didn't want to introduce
the requirement of a VCS checkout. `mach artifact toolchain` has its
origins in providing a feature to the build system. And "fetching
artifacts from tasks" is a more generic feature than that. I think
it should be implemented as a generic feature and not something that is
"toolchain" specific.
I think the best place for a generic "fetch content" feature is in
the worker, where content can be defined in the task payload. But as
explained above, that feature isn't universally available. The next
best place is probably run-task. run-task already performs generic,
very-early task preparation steps, such as performing a VCS checkout.
I would like to fold `fetch-content` into run-task and make it all
driven by environment variables. But run-task is currently Python 2
and achieving concurrency would involve a bit of programming (or
adding package dependencies). I may very well port run-task to Python
3 and then fold fetch-content into it. Or maybe we leave
`fetch-content` as a standalone script.
MozReview-Commit-ID: AGuTcwNcNJR
Currently, many tasks fetch content from the Internets. A problem with
that is fetching from the Internets is unreliable: servers may have
outages or be slow; content may disappear or change out from under us.
The unreliability of 3rd party services poses a risk to Firefox CI.
If services aren't available, we could potentially not run some CI tasks.
In the worst case, we might not be able to release Firefox. That would
be bad. In fact, as I write this, gmplib.org has been unavailable for
~24 hours and Firefox CI is unable to retrieve the GMP source code.
As a result, building GCC toolchains is failing.
A solution to this is to make tasks more hermetic by depending on
fewer network services (which by definition aren't reliable over time
and therefore introduce instability).
This commit attempts to mitigate some external service dependencies
by introducing the *fetch* task kind.
The primary goal of the *fetch* kind is to obtain remote content and
re-expose it as a task artifact. By making external content available
as a cached task artifact, we allow dependent tasks to consume this
content without touching the service originally providing that
content, thus eliminating a run-time dependency and making tasks more
hermetic and reproducible over time.
We introduce a single "fetch-url" "using" flavor to define tasks that
fetch single URLs and then re-expose that URL as an artifact. Powering
this is a new, minimal "fetch" Docker image that contains a
"fetch-content" Python script that does the work for us.
We have added tasks to fetch source archives used to build the GCC
toolchains.
Fetching remote content and re-exposing it as an artifact is not
very useful by itself: the value is in having tasks use those
artifacts.
We introduce a taskgraph transform that allows tasks to define an
array of "fetches." Each entry corresponds to the name of a "fetch"
task kind. When present, the corresponding "fetch" task is added as a
dependency. And the task ID and artifact path from that "fetch" task
is added to the MOZ_FETCHES environment variable of the task depending
on it. Our "fetch-content" script has a "task-artifacts"
sub-command that tasks can execute to perform retrieval of all
artifacts listed in MOZ_FETCHES.
To prove all of this works, the code for fetching dependencies when
building GCC toolchains has been updated to use `fetch-content`. The
now-unused legacy code has been deleted.
This commit improves the reliability and efficiency of GCC toolchain
tasks. Dependencies now all come from task artifacts and should always
be available in the common case. In addition, `fetch-content` downloads
and extracts files concurrently. This makes it faster than the serial
application which we were previously using.
There are some things I don't like about this commit.
First, a new Docker image and Python script for downloading URLs feels
a bit heavyweight. The Docker image is definitely overkill as things
stand. I can eventually justify it because I want to implement support
for fetching and repackaging VCS repositories and for caching Debian
packages. These will require more packages than what I'm comfortable
installing on the base Debian image, therefore justifying a dedicated
image.
The `fetch-content static-url` sub-command could definitely be
implemented as a shell script. But Python is readily available and
is more pleasant to maintain than shell, so I wrote it in Python.
`fetch-content task-artifacts` is more advanced and writing it in
Python is more justified, IMO. FWIW, the script is Python 3 only,
which conveniently gives us access to `concurrent.futures`, which
facilitates concurrent download.
`fetch-content` also duplicates functionality found elsewhere.
generic-worker's task payload supports a "mounts" feature which
facilitates downloading remote content, including from a task
artifact. However, this feature doesn't exist on docker-worker.
So we have to implement downloading inside the task rather than
at the worker level. I concede that if all workers had generic-worker's
"mounts" feature and supported concurrent download, `fetch-content`
wouldn't need to exist.
`fetch-content` also duplicates functionality of
`mach artifact toolchain`. I probably could have used
`mach artifact toolchain` instead of writing
`fetch-content task-artifacts`. However, I didn't want to introduce
the requirement of a VCS checkout. `mach artifact toolchain` has its
origins in providing a feature to the build system. And "fetching
artifacts from tasks" is a more generic feature than that. I think
it should be implemented as a generic feature and not something that is
"toolchain" specific.
I think the best place for a generic "fetch content" feature is in
the worker, where content can be defined in the task payload. But as
explained above, that feature isn't universally available. The next
best place is probably run-task. run-task already performs generic,
very-early task preparation steps, such as performing a VCS checkout.
I would like to fold `fetch-content` into run-task and make it all
driven by environment variables. But run-task is currently Python 2
and achieving concurrency would involve a bit of programming (or
adding package dependencies). I may very well port run-task to Python
3 and then fold fetch-content into it. Or maybe we leave
`fetch-content` as a standalone script.
MozReview-Commit-ID: AGuTcwNcNJR
Let's install python-zstandard for both Python 2 and Python 3 in
all our Debian-based images so it is readily available for use.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 1L8zDc5MYXA
Summary:
Attempt to get more information about download timeouts, and
also retry the partial generation if download timeouts happen too often.
Reviewers: mtabara
Reviewed By: mtabara
Bug #: 1452927
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1467
Our normal ubuntu 16.04 test image is suitable for hosting an Android x86
emulator with these minor updates: Install kvm and make sure /dev/kvm
rw permissions are open for everyone. Note that /dev/kvm is generally
only visible when running docker with --privileged; its permissions
cannot be modified in the Dockerfile, only at run-time: run-task is the
first opportunity.
download-and-compress isn't very complicated and should work on Python 3
with minimal effort. So let's switch it to use Python 3.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 9G1WfcbbKEY
Version 0.9.0 bundles a newer version of the zstandard library, which
is a little faster and has a few minor bug fixes (none that we were
likely hitting, however).
MozReview-Commit-ID: 9YgSZ0G41eg
The python3-minimal package provides /usr/bin/python3 on Debian.
This commit installs this package so a `python3` executable is
provided.
This required backporting the package to wheezy. The final patch
is trivial. But I wasted a bit of time figuring out why `mk-build-deps`
wasn't working. It would no-op and exit 0 and then the build would
complain about missing dependencies!
glandium's theory is that the ":any" multiarch support on wheezy
isn't complete. Removing ":any" seems to make things "just work."
MozReview-Commit-ID: FBicpK4SmkQ
This Dockerfile downloads non-deterministic remote content (by cloning a
Git repo) and then executes code from it. Part of that code is
executing Python package installs.
Since this Docker image was generated, it appears the remote code
requires new build dependencies. This commit adds those package
dependencies.
Not having deterministic Docker image builds is a bug. I'll file a
follow-up so we pin the Git commit used for building so this type
of failure doesn't occur again.
In preparation for making it usable on Windows, after which point
having it in a directory with "docker" in it doesn't make much sense.
MozReview-Commit-ID: Hgu0buFyJwF
Previously, we installed the latest version of pip and virtualenv.
This commit pins the pip and virtualenv version so we install known
working versions (pip 10 breaks the image build for some reason).
MozReview-Commit-ID: hOAMencdcr
This also removes any redundant Ci.nsISupports elements in the interface
lists.
This was done using the following script:
acecb401b7/processors/chromeutils-generateQI.jsm
MozReview-Commit-ID: AIx10P8GpZY
The big win comes from removing the APT lists. We also reduce the
number of layers while we're here.
This makes the image 162 MB instead of 202 MB.
MozReview-Commit-ID: K2ic4zcr31j
Summary:
a difference in behaviours between awks meant the original didn't work in-situ,
although the task didn't fail due to the pipe chain.
Reviewers: jlorenzo
Reviewed By: jlorenzo
Bug #: 1452159
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D899
