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 :)

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Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20853#pullrequestreview-2280576238

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