ci: Pin openSUSE to second-to-last Tumbleweed snapshot#4368
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If tests build an image with a particular `Snapshot=` (as the next commit will do), we need extension builds to use the same snapshot, so that (1) they match the base image, and (2) avoid trying to download newer packages from mirrors which don't have these yet. Read the snapshot from the main mkosi.local.conf and pass it along in `ImageConfig`, for the `--directory ...` extension builds in tests/test_extension.py.
openSUSE Tumbleweed US mirrors frequently lag behind freshly published snapshots. On US-based GitHub action runners the geo-redirector routes to US mirrors that haven't rsync'd the latest snapshot yet, so zypper/dnf get 404s and timeouts on every mirror and abort. (This never reproduces in Germany, as the primary mirrors in Nürnberg sync very quickly.) Pin the second-to-last published snapshot for openSUSE image builds, which should have had time to propagate to all mirrors. Fixes half of systemd#4365.
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As expected, that failure is due to a broken/hanging mirror and zypper not falling back to a different one. Without mirrorlink zypper has no other fallbacks, so that's now in "we have to live with this" territory. @behrmann can we land this one for now, and I shelve #4366? |
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It's already a very decent improvement over the status quo ante. Thanks, Martin! |
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This is a version of #4366 without the third commit that moves to metalink. metalink is good for using more mirrors, and auto-falling back away from broken ones (of which there are plenty). However, the metalink entry point
slc-mirror.opensuse.orgis itself unreliable: example, example, example.So we now need to pick our poison: Fail on
slc-mirroras above, or fail on individual broken mirrors like this.Both this PR and #4366 improve the current situation where almost every opensuse run fails, but neither can bring reliable test runs 😢 that really needs fixing the opensuse mirror situation.
See #4365 for details.