We were running the run_sdk_container script with passing a value of a
variable named version to the script through the -v flag. But nowhere
is the variable defined. This worked under jenkins, because jenkins
job has a version parameter that gets exported into environment under
the same name. But running it manually outside jenkins revealed the
bug.
The script should have been using a vernum variable. Now, the
difference between this variable and the version variable is that
"version" was in form of <channel>-<version>-<build_id>, whereas
"vernum" comes without the channel part. Fortunately,
"run_sdk_container" was stripping the channel part before using this
value, so it makes no difference whether we pass
main-3333.0.0.0-some-id or just 3333.0.0-some-id.
Recently we changed the region from DA (Dallas) to DC (Washington),
because there are more ARM64 servers available. Reflect this change in
the new pipeline too.
`c3.large.arm64` instances of Equinix Metal are available in metro
either `DA` or `DC`. However, recently arm64 CI builds started to fail
due to too few servers available in the DA metro. As the DC metro has
more servers available, let's change metro to DC.
How to check how many servers are available in a specific metro:
```
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: ..." \
https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/capacity/metros \
-d '{"servers": [ { \
"metro": "dc", \
"plan": "c3.large.arm64", \
"quantity": 34 \
} ] }'
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token: ..." \
https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/capacity/metros \
-d '{"servers": [ { \
"metro": "da", \
"plan": "c3.large.arm64", \
"quantity": 17 \
} ] }'
```
When the build system runs the packages jobs for both architectures in
parallel and has to create a new tag, tagging fails due to the race in
the tagging.
Move the git tagging to its own script that is run from a new top-level
job that starts the packages jobs for both architectures.
When the specified remote contains a same-named branch as origin,
the checkout fails with "fatal: 'X' matched multiple (Y) remote
tracking branches".
Add the remote name as prefix to make the reference unambiguous.
While we moved the arm64 tests to lxc containers, amd64 stayed on VMs
which were not easy to scale up.
Now the GitHub Action runner is running on lxc containers and we can
spawn more VMs in parallel because it has no memory limit.
There is some cruft left after grub hashes generation. After the
contents are zipped into archive, they don't need to be around any
more.
Try to remove the rootfs directory after unmounting the
image. disk_util can recreate it again if there is a need for it.
Remove the build directory used for generating ACI images - it's not
needed after successful installation.
