Re: [PATCH] ci: Check for necessary Debian packages when running build-many-glibcs.py

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>]

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Hi Joseph,

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> 
> > The same approach (with using the 'distro' python module) can be
> > applied to Fedora or Suse.  
> 
> That module isn't part of the Python standard library.  I don't think
> we should introduce a dependency on it; rather, any use of it should
> be appropriately conditional, so the code still runs (without these
> checks) if the module is unavailable (importing produces an
> ImportError).

The 'distro' module is the most elegant (and pythonic) way to get the
info about running OS.
And it is by default available on Debian as part of 
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages

> 
> In particular, even if the OS Python installation includes that
> module, the script should work with a separately built copy of Python
> without any such modules from the OS.

As I've said before - it looks like the most elegant approach...

> 
> > +def check_os_requirements():
> > +    if distro.id() == "debian" and distro.version() == "10":
> > +        # List 'Debian' specific packages requirements (different
> > than
> > +        # vanila distro) to run this test without errors.
> > +        debian_requirements = ['flex', 'bison', 'dnsutils',
> > 'texinfo']  
> 
> Why is dnsutils needed?
> 

configure.ac:83: installing 'build-aux/compile'
configure.ac:46: installing 'build-aux/config.guess'
configure.ac:46: installing 'build-aux/config.sub'
configure.ac:26: installing 'build-aux/install-sh'
configure.ac:26: installing 'build-aux/missing'
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp'
Makefile.am:32: installing 'build-aux/mdate-sh'
doc/Makefrag.am:106: warning: user target '$(srcdir)/doc/version.texi'
defined here ... Makefile.am:155:   'doc/Makefrag.am' included from here
/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/texi-vers.am: ... overrides Automake target
'$(srcdir)/doc/version.texi' defined here Makefile.am:32: installing
'build-aux/texinfo.tex' parallel-tests: installing
'build-aux/test-driver' Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1324, in do_open
    encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1260, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1306, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1255, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1030, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 970, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1415, in connect
    super().connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 942, in connect
    (self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 707, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 748, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto,
flags): socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known



Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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