Skip to content

v0.2

Compare
Choose a tag to compare
@talex5 talex5 released this 30 Dec 12:36
· 263 commits to master since this release
4c2136d

CHANGES:

  • Add support for nested / multi-stage builds (@talex5 #48 #49).
    This allows you to use a large build environment to create a binary and then
    copy that into a smaller runtime environment. It's also useful to get better caching
    if two things can change independently (e.g. you want to build your software and also
    a linting tool, and be able to update either without rebuilding the other).

  • Add healthcheck feature (@talex5 #52).

    • Checks that Docker is running.
    • Does a test build using busybox.
  • Clean up left-over runc containers on restart (@talex5 #53).
    If btrfs crashes and makes the filesystem read-only then after rebooting there will be stale runc directories.
    New jobs with the same IDs would then fail.

  • Remove dependency on dockerfile (@talex5 #51).
    This also allows us more control over the formatting
    (e.g. putting a blank line between stages in multi-stage builds).

  • Record log output from docker pull (@talex5 #46).
    Otherwise, it's not obvious why we've stopped at a pull step, or what is happening.

  • Improve formatting of OBuilder specs (@talex5 #45).

  • Use seccomp policy to avoid necessary sync operations (@talex5 #44).
    Sync operations are really slow on btrfs. They're also pointless,
    since if the computer crashes while we're doing a build then we'll just throw it away and start again anyway.
    Use a seccomp policy that causes all sync operations to "fail", with errno 0 ("success").
    On my machine, this reduces the time to apt-get install -y shared-mime-info from 18.5s to 4.7s.
    Use --fast-sync to enable to new behaviour (it requires runc 1.0.0-rc92).

  • Use a mutex to avoid concurrent btrfs operations (@talex5 #43).
    Btrfs deadlocks enough as it is. Don't stress it further by trying to do two things at once.

Internal changes:

  • Improve handling of file redirections (@talex5 #46).
    Instead of making the caller do all the work of closing the file descriptors safely, add an FD_move_safely mode.

  • Travis tests: ensure apt cache is up-to-date (@talex5 #50).