On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 14:40:38 GMT, Fei Yang <fy...@openjdk.org> wrote: > Debian "sid" or "unstable" (https://httpredir.debian.org/debian) that we use > for debootstrapping RISC-V breaks very often. Currently, the GHA > linux-cross-build for RISC-V would not continue and is simply skipped when > this debootstrap for "sid" repos fails. (See > [JDK-8326960](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8326960) for more details). > This is affecting GHA linux-cross-build for RISC-V for quite some time. As a > result, we failed to catch some early build issues. > > But I don't think we need to catch up with the latest Debian "unstable" for > our GHA verification purpose. So one way would be using some older but > working Debian shapshot [1] [2] for our purpose. I find the most recent > usable shapshot is > https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20240228T034848Z/. We can switch > back to more stable Debian repo once it graduates. > > [1] https://snapshot.debian.org/ > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-snapshot/ > > Testing: > - [ ] GHA
I don't mind doing this, especially given that RISC-V job would "pass" cleanly if this snapshot does not work. It is on you to make sure it does work :) ------------- Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20853#pullrequestreview-2280576238