faaa0794b2 refactor: Remove PERSISTENT_WORKER_* yaml templates (MarcoFalke)
fa1d8955f6 ci: Move tidy to persistent worker (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Cirrus CI will be capping the free compute soon. For now, switch more tasks to persistent worker, as recommended by Cirrus CI.
(See slightly related discussion in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098)
Also, add more docs.
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This should fix the macOS-cross build on Cirrus CI containers.
Locally this was already working, because the SDK was cached in
/ci_container_base/ in the image, which is also the folder used for a
later CI run.
However, on Cirrus CI, when using an image *and* a custom BASE_ROOT_DIR,
the SDK will not be found in /ci_base_install/, nor in BASE_ROOT_DIR.
Fix this by normalizing *all* folders to /ci_container_base/.
9658d0dc17 ci: Run "macOS native x86_64" job on GitHub Actions (Hennadii Stepanov)
Pull request description:
From https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098:
> Thus, someone would have to sponsor an amount of roughly 5kUSD/mo for those two tasks.
> If the goal is to stay on a free plan, I think the only option is GitHub Actions CI.
---
**IMPORTANT NOTE**. We currently ship macOS release binaries for both architectures: `x86_64` and `arm64`. If this PR gets merged, only `x86_64` architecture will be tested on CI, which implies some [drawbacks](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28187#issuecomment-1658077549).
However, it has never been the case that our CI tested both architectures simultaneously. And we hope that GitHub Actions will soon host macOS `arm64` runners.
Historically, we moved from `x86_64` to `arm64` in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26388 less than a year ago.
---
Security concerns:
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098#issuecomment-1651432106
- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28098#issuecomment-1651688197
`GITHUB_TOKEN` permissions (from the build log in my personal repo):
```
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8313534Z ##[group]GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8314113Z Contents: read
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8314608Z Metadata: read
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8314957Z Packages: read
2023-07-27T07:30:17.8315233Z ##[endgroup]
```
Comparison of resources:
| Resource | Current, Cirrus CI | Suggested, GitHub Actions |
|---|:-:|:-:|
| CPU | 4 | 4 \*\* |
| RAM, GB | 8 | 14 |
**\*\* NOTE**: However, [docs](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#supported-runners-and-hardware-resources) are mentioning:
> 3-core CPU (x86_64)
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* PERSISTENT_WORKER_TEMPLATE_ENV is not needed at all, because
RESTART_CI_DOCKER_BEFORE_RUN is already set on the persistent worker.
* PERSISTENT_WORKER_TEMPLATE can be replaced by pinning the
previous_releases task to a type of worker. This should make the CI
performance more consistent.
This change aims to:
1) Remove our own `CCACHE_SIZE` environment variable that violates
Ccache's `CCACHE_*` namespace.
2) Introduce the `CCACHE_MAXSIZE` environment variable that is
documented since v3.3, which makes its usage consistent with other ones,
such as `CCACHE_DIR` and `CCACHE_NOHASHDIR`.
fa70e85e00 ci: Bump macOS cross task to ubuntu:jammy (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
It shouldn't matter what underlying image is used for the task, because the compiler is fully provided by `./depends/`.
So just use the latest Ubuntu LTS, which is also most likely the OS that is used by people cross-compiling, if there are any at all.
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This is required for the next commit. Also, drop CI_RETRY_EXE before
"dnf install", because it requires getopt, which will only be installed
later on via util-linux
123043e99c ci: Bump lint task image to Ubuntu Jammy (Hennadii Stepanov)
9b86114058 ci: Use pyenv's `python-build` to install Python in lint task (Hennadii Stepanov)
Pull request description:
This PR:
- is an alternative to bitcoin/bitcoin#26581 and bitcoin/bitcoin#26637
- closesbitcoin/bitcoin#26548
Key advantages of this PR over others:
- it uses pyenv's `python-build` [standalone](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/tree/master/plugins/python-build#using-python-build-standalone)
- requires no additional computational resources
Note for testing. The lint task must success regardless of whether the `python_cache` is populated or invalidated.
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