Re: RFC: speed up gerrit verifications by using dependency artifacts

True, archiving artifacts comes ootb, but the functionality to copy/fetch artifacts from another buildjob/project as a build step has to be installed via plugin [1]. Would you consider installing the copyArtifact plugin? In case installing such plugin is not an option one can simply use: "wget $URL_OF_LATEST_SUCCESSFUL_ARTIFACT" [2] to fetch artifacts. Such command can be put in an additional "execute shell" build step, so it wouldn't touch any build script... But a matrixConfigurationJob [3] archives artifacts per axis, so jenkins would store 8 artifacts [4]. Unfortunately the "archive artifacts" post-build-step cannot be triggered by a specific axis configuration (afaik). A quick brainstorming how to change this behavior ended in: - additional "execute shell" step evaluating its axes configuration and delete artifact accordingly to avoid redundant archiving. - change "archive artifact" "post build step" to not fail build if no artifact could be archived. Unfortunately this configuration applies for all axes, so when archiving of the "chosen" artifact fails no one will complain. Furthermore the "latest successful artifact" might already be outdated when fetching it. This happens every time when a openbsc [5] build is triggered by an "upstream project" until its artifact has been archived. So a mechanism is needed to verify whether fetched artifact is still valid and compiling all dependencies elsewise. At this point I just got the feeling that writing a custom script and using a directory as an artifact store may will be much more straight forward. I agrre, that this directory approach might be to prototyp'ish. But let's discuss it. We can change everything. :) Good question! If one artifact is sufficient, let's archive only one. (sure thing) But according to contrib/jenkins.sh in openbsc repo, some non-master branches (of libosmo-(netif && sccp)) are used in all axes where "IU" is enabled: 20) if [ "x$IU" = "x--enable-iu" ]; then 21) netif_branch="sysmocom/sctp" 22) sccp_branch="sysmocom/iu" 23) fi -- 26) osmo-build-dep.sh libosmo-netif $netif_branch 27) osmo-build-dep.sh libosmo-sccp $sccp_branch To be honest I'm a bit confused or am I just missing something? blobb [1] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Copy+Artifact+Plugin [2] wget https://jenkins.blobb.me/job/matrixJobArtifactHandlingExample/HELLO=Salut,W… [3] https://jenkins.blobb.me/job/matrixJobArtifactHandlingExample [4] https://jenkins.blobb.me/job/matrixJobArtifactHandlingExample/HELLO=Salut,W… [5] http://jenkins.osmocom.org/jenkins/view/OpenBSC/job/OpenBSC/ 2017-03-30 17:20 GMT+02:00 Holger Freyther <holger(a)freyther.de>de>: -- Gruß Blobb