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Support installing latest version of specific pkgs

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​There are multiple oVirt projects (see below) which contain a build.packages.force (or similar) file, along with the following code in their build script:

# The "build.packages.force" file contains BuildRequires packages # to be installed using their latest version. # Force CI to get the latest version of these packages: dependencies="$(sed -e '/^[ \t]*$/d' -e '/^#/d' automation/build.packages.force)" yum-deprecated clean metadata || yum clean metadata yum-deprecated -y install ${dependencies} || yum -y install ${dependencies}

Used in projects: ovirt-engine-dashboard, ovirt-engine-nodejs-modules, ovirt-web-ui

Is it possible for CI to support this out of the box, using .force file convention? (basically a suffix to standard .packages files)

I've looked at https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-921#icft=OVIRT-921 and IIUC the yum cache is cleaned every 2 days, so an alternative to above proposal would be to have this interval configurable per-project.

Not sure what's the best approach here, please advise.

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Eyal Edri June 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM

as mock_runner is in stabilization mode and we're not planning any new features there, if this is something that is still needed, we can check if its possible to support via V2 of future work planned for the CI

Barak Korren May 16, 2017 at 6:25 PM

The runtime different between cache-using mock runs and non-cache using ones is more then a minute, so playing with the caching intervals would be I'll advised. Making this configurable would not be trivial at all.

I suppose the *.packages file format can be extended to allow requesting certain versions or forcing updates. Such changes will need to go into the mock_runner.sh code. There had been similar requests made in the past (Can't locate the relevant tickets right now).

I'm afraid I cannot prioritize this ticket very highly though. We are a bit reluctant to add any new features to mock_runner.sh for the time being.

Patches will be welcome though....

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Created May 16, 2017 at 4:46 PM
Updated June 4, 2018 at 6:29 AM
Resolved June 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM

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