Aggregate constituents are derivations. However there can be multiple
builds in an evaluation that have the same derivation, i.e. they can
alias each other (e.g. "emacs", "emacs24" and "emacs24Packages.emacs"
in Nixpkgs). Previously we picked a build arbitrarily for the
AggregateConstituents table. Now we pick the one with the shortest
name (e.g. "emacs").
We now keep all builds in the N most recent evaluations of a jobset,
rather than the N most recent builds of every job. Note that this
means that typically fewer builds will be kept (since jobs may be
unchanged across evaluations).
For presentation purposes, we need to know what builds are part of an
aggregate build. So at evaluation time, look at the "members"
attribute, find the corresponding builds in the eval, and create a
mapping in the AggregateMembers table.
The NrBuilds table tracks the value of ‘select count(*) from Builds
where finished = 0’, keeping it up to date via a trigger. This is
necessary to make the /all page fast, since otherwise it needs to do a
sequential scan on the Builds table.
HipChat notification messages now say which committers were
responsible, e.g.
Job patchelf:trunk:tarball: Failed, probably due to 2 commits by Eelco Dolstra
Restarted builds whose derivation has been garbage-collected in the
meantime caused hydra-queue-runner to get stuck in a loop saying:
Jun 14 11:54:25 lucifer hydra-queue-runner[31844]: system type `x86_64-darwin': 0 active, 2 allowed, started 2 builds
Jun 14 11:54:25 lucifer hydra-queue-runner[31844]: {UNKNOWN}: path `/nix/store/wcizsch2garjlvs4pswrar47i1hwjaia-inconsolata.drv' is not valid at
/nix/store/ypkdm4v13yrk941rvp8h0y425a5ww6nm-hydra-0.1pre1353-40debf1/bin/.hydra-queue-runner-wrapped line 51. at
/nix/store/kjpsc2zdaxnd44azxyw60f2px839m1cd-hydra-perl-deps/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.2/Catalyst/Model/DBIC/Schema.pm line 501
This happens if the previous iteration took more than 60 seconds.
Then the queue runner may think that builds failed to start properly
and unlock them, e.g.
build 5264936 pid 19248 died, unlocking
build 5264951 pid 19248 died, unlocking
build 5257073 pid 19248 died, unlocking
...
Because we don't start a build if a dependency is already building,
it's possible that some or all of the $extraAllowed highest-priority
builds in the queue are not eligible. E.g. with $extraAllowed = 32,
we might start only 3 builds even though there are thousands in the
queue. The fix is to try all queued builds until $extraAllowed have
been started.
Issue #99.
Previously, for scheduled builds, "timestamp" contained the time the
build was added to the queue, while for finished builds, it was the
time the build finished. Now it's always the former.
See e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4915744.
P.S. existing active build steps of finished builds can be marked as
aborted by running:
update buildsteps set busy = 0, status = 4
where (build, stepnr) in
(select s.build, s.stepnr from buildsteps s join builds b on s.build = b.id where b.finished = 1 and s.busy = 1);
This is mostly so we don't have to pass around common parameters like
"db" and "config", and we don't have to check for the existence of
methods.
A plugin now looks like this:
package Hydra::Plugin::TwitterNotification;
use parent 'Hydra::Plugin';
sub buildFinished {
my ($self, $build, $dependents) = @_;
print STDERR "tweeting about build ", $build->id, "\n";
# Send tweet...
# Hydra database is $self->{db}.
}
You can now add plugins to Hydra by writing a module called
Hydra::Plugin::<whatever> and putting it in Perl's search path. The
only plugin operation currently supported in buildFinished, called
when hydra-build has finished doing a build.
For instance, a Twitter notification plugin would look like this:
package Hydra::Plugin::TwitterNotification;
sub buildFinished {
my ($self, $db, $config, $build, $dependents) = @_;
print STDERR "tweeting about build ", $build->id, "\n";
# send tweet...
}
1;
Previously this function didn't actually have a lot of effect. If a
build A had a dependency B, Hydra would start B first. But on the
next scan through the queue, it would start A anyway, because of the
"busy => 0" restriction.
Now the queue runner won't start a build if a dependency is already
running. (This is not necessarily optimal, since the build may have
other dependencies that don't correspond to a build in the queue but
could run. One day we'll start all Hydra builds in parallel...)
Also, for performance, use computeFSClosure instead of "nix-store
-qR". And don't bother with topological sorting because it didn't
have an effect anyway since the database returns dependencies in
arbitrary order.
This allows checking a jobset (say) at most once a day. It's also
possible to disable polling by setting the interval to 0. This is
useful for jobsets that use push notification or are manually
evaluated.
Avoid the frequently printed
hydra-queue-runner[10293]: system type `x86_64-linux': 2 active, 2 allowed, starting 0 builds
message. That information is only interesting when some build are
actually started.
This is a followup to commit
10882a1ffd ("Add multiple output
support").
* src/script/hydra-eval-guile-jobs.in (job-evaluations->sxml): Return
several `output' tags in the body, and remove the `outPath' attribute
of `job'.
Note that on machines that support multiple system types, EACH system type gets the full number of build slots, which is almost certainly not what we want.
External machines can now notify Hydra that it should check a
repository by sending a GET or PUSH request to /api/push, providing a
list of jobsets to be checked and/or a list of repository URLs. In
the latter case, all jobsets that have any of the specified
repositories as an input will be checked.
For instance, you can configure GitHub or BitBucket to send a request
to the URL
http://hydra.example.org/api/push?repos=git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
to trigger evaluation of all jobsets that have
git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git as an input, or to the URL
http://hydra.example.org/api/push?jobsets=patchelf:trunk,nixpkgs:trunk
to trigger evaluation of just the specified jobsets.
It's pointless to store these, since Nix knows where the logs are.
Also handle (in fact require) Nix's new log storage scheme. Also some
cleanups in the build page.
