We use the android ‘repo’ tool to build our project, and I am in the phase of making it run as part of a gitlab CI pipeline. The build job is supposed to run in a docker image deployed by the runner, and this part works as expected.
Since gitlab does not integrate with repo, I added the source checkout phase as a ‘before_script’. But unfortunately, repo then depends on the content of the image to run, and this one is pretty old.
As I understand it, the docker executor has it’s own image to perform the git-clone and artifacts retrieval, and this is called Pre-job (The Docker executor | GitLab)
Is it possible to add commands to be run during the Pre-job phase ?
Regards
If you are using your own runners, you can can override the helper image: Advanced configuration | GitLab
To run something every time in a pre-build phase, you can consider injecting the commands into the pre_build_script
config within the [[runners]]
section in its config.toml
: Advanced configuration | GitLab
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Thanks a lot for the answer @hchouraria , this could indeed enable me to run repo in a controlled context.
In the meantime, I convinced the team to switch to git submodules; and keep our CI system as “uncustomized” as possible.
If I use a custom helper image, would it be possible to inject the changelog of all the sub-projects into the build’s meta-data ?
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