On 14/07/2021 11:13, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi again, > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, Philippe Blain wrote: >> >>> Le 2021-07-13 à 07:51, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget a écrit : >>>> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> + - name: Download the `sparse` package >>>> + uses: git-for-windows/get-azure-pipelines-artifact@v0 >>>> + with: >>>> + repository: git/git >>>> + definitionId: 10 >>>> + artifact: sparse-20.04 >>>> + - name: Install the `sparse` package >>>> + run: sudo dpkg -i sparse-20.04/sparse_*.deb >>> >>> Out of curiosity, why is this necessary (as opposed to using >>> the Ubuntu package, i.e. 'sudo apt-get -q -y sparse') ? >> >> This is actually a historical curiosity: years ago, I created an Azure >> Pipeline that builds the `sparse` Debian package for the specific purpose >> of using it in our CI builds (if you care to look at the issue 345 I >> linked above, you will see how long ago that idea was in the making). Now, >> the historical curiosity is that back then, there was no current `sparse` >> package available for Ubuntu, and Ramsay mentioned that a newer version >> would be required to run `make sparse`. >> >> And when I implemented this patch yesterday, I did not even question this, >> I was just happy that I had come up with the GitHub Action >> `get-azure-pipelines-artifact` (to help with the `vcpkg` part of our CI >> builds). >> >> I was already writing a detailed paragraph in the commit message to >> explain all that when it occurred to me that two years might make a big >> difference and an up to date `sparse` might be available. And lo and >> behold, this is the case! >> >> Therefore, v2 will no longer jump through that hoop. > > *Never mind* > > I made a mistake in testing, and Ubuntu-20.04's `sparse` package _is too > old_. So I will reintroduce that hoop even before sending v2. Yes, last time I looked, 20.04's version of sparse was 0.6.1-2build1, 20.10 had 0.6.2-2 (both of which are too old), but 21.04, along with Debian Testing, had 0.6.3-1 which would work fine. [I am currently running v0.6.3-341-g8af24329] So, maybe the next Ubuntu LTS, ... :-D ATB, Ramsay Jones
