Re: [gentoo-project] utilizing GH functionality that Gentoo infra does not provide

[Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>]

On 31/03/2022 20:07, Maciej Barć wrote:
>
> On 3/31/22 6:43 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 6:48 AM Maciej Barć <xgqt@gentoo.org 
>> <mailto:xgqt@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     GURU already started experimenting with usage of GH's CI [1],
>>     though I can't skip over a very irritating fact: GH seems to think 
>> that
>>     there is only one Linux-based OS ("runs-on: ubuntu-latest"). IMO it
>>     would be better to run the CI on Gentoo's containers - which is
>>     possible
>>     with GitLab's CI.
>>     Also, on GitLab we do not have to pull images from official Docker
>>     registry [2].
>>
>>
>> Do you mean to imply that Github's CI doesn't support Linux other than 
>> Ubuntu? Or do you mean instead that Github's CI only supports 
>> non-Ubuntu as docker containers?
>>
>> An example of using a non-Ubuntu Linux container can be found here: 
>> https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/blob/25cdbae0ee1270a5c8dd6ba67696e29ad8076919/.github/workflows/linux.yml#L13 
>> <https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/blob/25cdbae0ee1270a5c8dd6ba67696e29ad8076919/.github/workflows/linux.yml#L13> 
>
 > Good to know, I think GURU's CI does not utilize that.

The ::guru (and ::sci) CI use the pkgcheck GitHub Action [1], very 
useful if you want to quickly setup a CI in your ebuild repository. It 
doesn't really matter which OS you run it on though. All it does is run 
pkgcheck on a collection of ebuild files etc, it will do that just as 
well in a Ubuntu container as in a Gentoo container.

Something that is on my wishlist is to replace this with something 
similar to what we have in ::gentoo (I.e. a CI that not only runs 
pkgcheck but also complains in #gentoo-guru and via email if it is 
broken. Automating this means that I no longer have to do it manually :P)

Best regards,
Andrew

[1] https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck-action