[PATCH] ci: install P4 from package to fix build error

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2019, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20190906102711.6401-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

To test 'git-p4' in the Linux Clang and GCC build jobs we used to install the 'p4' and 'p4d' binaries by directly downloading those binaries from a Perforce filehost. This has worked just fine ever since we started using Travis CI [1], but during the last day or so that filehost appeared to be gone: while its hostname still resolves, the host doesn't seem to reply to any download request, it doesn't even refuse the connection, and eventually our build jobs time out [2].

Now, this might be just a temporary glitch, but I'm afraid that it isn't. The "Helix Core Server Administrator Guide" [3] describes two ways to install these binaries on Linux, and none of them mentions the filehost that we've been downloading from in the past:

  - non-package installation: open the website's download page in your
    web browser, select OS and platform, click on the download link,
    and eventually you get a .tar.gz archive containing, among other
    things, the necessary 'p4' and 'p4d' binaries.

    Although we could use the URL of this archive to download it in
    our CI scripts with 'wget', nobody said that that URL remains
    stable, and we would still need to extract the archive and copy
    the binaries to $PATH.

  - package installation for various distros, including Ubuntu 16.04
    (i.e. the Ubuntu version used both in our Travis CI and Azure
    Pipelines builds): add a package repository and its pubkey,
    'apt-get update && apt-get install', and ready to go.

Let's install P4 from the package repository, because this approach seems to be simpler and more future proof.

Note that we used to install an old P4 version (2016.2) in the Linux build jobs, but with this change we'll install the most recent version available in the Perforce package repository (currently 2019.1).

[1] 522354d70f (Add Travis CI support, 2015-11-27). [2] https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/581429927#L422 [3] https://www.perforce.com/manuals/p4sag/Content/P4SAG/chapter.install.html

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---
 ci/install-dependencies.sh | 14 +++++---------
 ci/lib.sh                  |  8 +++-----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
index 8cc72503cb..0df48365dc 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -5,27 +5,23 @@
 
 . ${0%/*}/lib.sh
 
-P4WHENCE=http://filehost.perforce.com/perforce/r$LINUX_P4_VERSION
 LFSWHENCE=https://github.com/github/git-lfs/releases/download/v$LINUX_GIT_LFS_VERSION
 
 case "$jobname" in
 linux-clang|linux-gcc)
+	wget -qO - https://package.perforce.com/perforce.pubkey | sudo apt-key add -
+	echo "deb http://package.perforce.com/apt/ubuntu xenial release" >perforce.list
+	sudo mv perforce.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
 	sudo apt-add-repository -y "ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test"
 	sudo apt-get -q update
-	sudo apt-get -q -y install language-pack-is libsvn-perl apache2
+	sudo apt-get -q -y install language-pack-is libsvn-perl apache2 \
+		helix-p4d
 	case "$jobname" in
 	linux-gcc)
 		sudo apt-get -q -y install gcc-8
 		;;
 	esac
 
-	mkdir --parents "$P4_PATH"
-	pushd "$P4_PATH"
-		wget --quiet "$P4WHENCE/bin.linux26x86_64/p4d"
-		wget --quiet "$P4WHENCE/bin.linux26x86_64/p4"
-		chmod u+x p4d
-		chmod u+x p4
-	popd
 	mkdir --parents "$GIT_LFS_PATH"
 	pushd "$GIT_LFS_PATH"
 		wget --quiet "$LFSWHENCE/git-lfs-linux-amd64-$LINUX_GIT_LFS_VERSION.tar.gz"
diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
index 44db2d5cbb..efcccfee6f 100755
--- a/ci/lib.sh
+++ b/ci/lib.sh
@@ -162,17 +162,15 @@ linux-clang|linux-gcc)
 
 	export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=YesPlease
 
-	# The Linux build installs the defined dependency versions below.
-	# The OS X build installs much more recent versions, whichever
+	# The Linux build installs the defined dependency version below.
+	# The OS X build installs much more recent version, whichever
 	# were recorded in the Homebrew database upon creating the OS X
 	# image.
 	# Keep that in mind when you encounter a broken OS X build!
-	export LINUX_P4_VERSION="16.2"
 	export LINUX_GIT_LFS_VERSION="1.5.2"
 
-	P4_PATH="$HOME/custom/p4"
 	GIT_LFS_PATH="$HOME/custom/git-lfs"
-	export PATH="$GIT_LFS_PATH:$P4_PATH:$PATH"
+	export PATH="$GIT_LFS_PATH:$PATH"
 	;;
 osx-clang|osx-gcc)
 	if [ "$jobname" = osx-gcc ]

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