Re: CI, macports, darwin version problems

On 8/1/24 21:42, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 6:08 AM Christophe Pettus
> <christophe(dot)pettus(at)pgexperts(dot)com> wrote:
>> A quick search shows that the issue is most likely an old version of `tart`. I've upgraded both to the current cirrus/cli version. Can you let me know if things look resolved?
>
> I re-enabled it in the pool that cfbot uses for a couple of hours, and
> it said[1]:
>
> Persistent worker failed to start the task: tart command returned
> non-zero exit code: "root privileges are required to run and
> passwordless sudo was not available"
>
> I recall Joe and Andres dealing with something like that at some point
> on their Macs, but I don't have the details...
>
> [1] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5597845632319488

I think the solution was that the ci runner had to be executed directly
as the ci user.

8<-----------------
macmini:~ ci-run$ cat /Users/ci-run/bin/ci1.sh
#!/bin/bash

WORKER_NAME=jc-m2-1

TOKEN=/Users/ci-run/cirrus-token.txt
WORKER_YML=/Users/ci-run/cirrus-worker-macos.yml
BREW_BIN=/opt/homebrew/bin
CIRRUS=${BREW_BIN}/cirrus
CAT=/bin/cat

export PATH=${BREW_BIN}:${PATH}
${CIRRUS} worker run \
-f "${WORKER_YML}" \
--name "${WORKER_NAME}" \
--token "$(${CAT} ${TOKEN})"

macmini:~ ci-run$ /Users/ci-run/bin/ci1.sh &
8<-----------------

I tried making this run like a service using launchctl, but that was
giving the permissions errors. I finally gave up trying to figure it out
and just accepted that I need to manually start the script whenever I
reboot the mac.

BTW, if there are any MacOS launchctl wizards around, I am all ears :-)

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