Re: [edk2-devel] libspdm Breaking Builds

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

Hi Pete,

There is another option for developers and CI agents.

Git supports a URL insteadof option to redirect git requests.

    https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-urlltbasegtinsteadOf

We can use this to redirect a request from cryptomilk cmocka to the 
TianoCore mirror of cryptomilk cmocka.

For developers, this can be a global config setting so it works 
for all edk2 trees on their system.

For a CI agent, this could be ab early step in all CI jobs to perform
a git config action.  Perhaps a feature Stuart could adopt to support
URL redirects.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:18 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen.yao@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael
> D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; mikuback@linux.microsoft.com
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] libspdm Breaking Builds
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> On 2024.05.24 03:13, Yao, Jiewen via groups.io wrote:
> > Please let us know if the preference for libspdm submodule. (Below options)
> > 1) Keep current libspdm official 3.3.0 release, and update to next release
> at the beginning of July.
> > 2) Update libspdm immediately with the new cmocka submodule, which is NOT
> an official release.
> 
> Considering that I (and I expect anybody who tries to use EDK2 as a
> submodule in their UEFI build projects with GitHub Actions), I have to
> vote for option 2.
> 
> An example of the current issue can be shown on a project that simply
> attempts to build the UEFI Shell from the latest stable EDK2 release,
> using EDK2 as a submodule, can be shown at
> https://github.com/pbatard/UEFI-Shell/actions/runs/9290685065/job/25567879807
> or
> https://github.com/pbatard/UEFI-Shell/actions/runs/9290988138/job/25568511355
> and as you can see, it makes building the project completely impossible
> unless you ditch using EDK2 as a submodule (which isn't a viable option
> IMO, because a build toolchain that cannot be used as a git submodule is
> a very limiting toolchain).
> 
> For information, there's only so much fine grained tuning GitHub Actions
> offers on submodules, and no matter how you try to play with the fetch
> depth, the fact that one of the libspdm sub-dependency has essentially
> become M.I.A. is something that should be addressed as a matter of urgency.
> 
> So I hope that a commit that updates libspdm to the new cmocka submodule
> can find its way into EDK2 fairly soon, as it is currently halting a
> projects that aims at producing trusted UEFI Shell releases.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> /Pete


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