If there's environment drift in Whimsy VM versus Whimsy Docker, could we deploy Whimsy as a container instead? Make the Whimsy VM a container host, that sort of thing. Decouples our versions of Apache, Ruby, etc., from the underlying OS.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:10 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 16:03, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:27 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 14:53, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:29 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > There are a lot of older versions of Gems around - maybe time to do a > > > > > cleanup? > > > > > > > > It would take a bit of refactoring, but there is code in the Rakefile > > > > that might be useful. On my ubuntu machine, I need to prefix gem > > > > install commands with `sudo` and having `rake udpate` iterate through > > > > the gemfiles and prompting me many times grew old fast so I added a > > > > check to see if Bundler.bundle_path.writable? and if not I would build > > > > a single gemfile that collected up all the dependencies. Having a > > > > 'rake gem:clean' or equivalent task that would do this followed > > > > immediately by an update might be useful. The update is required as > > > > there are rare cases where different apps use different gems (until > > > > recently, active_support required an old version of tzinfo, for > > > > example). > > > > > > I don't think that is the case at present. > > > > True, but it won't always be the case. > > > > > I just did a cleanup on the Docker build, and a subsequent update did > > > not install anything. > > > > > > Is a separate task needed? > > > Why not just always do a cleanup just before an update? > > > > Routinely uninstalling a gem that is still needed (like was the case > > with the tzinfo gem) will likely cause user visible failures. > > If it is done just before an update then the time window during which > the required gem version is missing should be quite short. > > But if that is unacceptable I guess it would be possible to parse the > versions installed by the update process and work out which others are > not needed. > > > > The update might then introduce new versions, but next time around > > > they should be cleaned up. > > > > > > > Of course, all this will be cleaned up when infra supports Ubuntu > > > > 22.04 and we move to whimsy-vm7. > > > > > > That will result in an initial cleanup, but versions will continue to > > > build up over time, so cleanup will still be needed. > > > > > > > - Sam Ruby > > > > - Sam Ruby
