It's possible that I am just making a stupid mistake, but here is a description of the problem. Trying to cache a directory that is outside the main source folder using an absolute path.
The workspace is "/drone/src".
Configure the drone-cache mount to be "/drone/cache".
Near the end of the build process, run "ls -al /drone" to observe the directory contents.
ls -al /drone
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 14 16:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Mar 14 16:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 14 16:27 cache
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 14 16:26 src
So, everything seems to be in place. The final step in the drone pipeline is to run rebuild:
mountpoints is a variable that in this case should be ["/drone/cache"]).
Archive format isn't specified, so it's using the default (tar).
The final output of the rebuild shows an error that the directory doesn't exist.
level=error name=drone-cache ts=2023-03-14T16:27:20.348382792Z caller=main.go:628 err="[IMPORTANT] build cache, source </drone/cache>, make sure file or directory exists and readable, lstat /drone/cache: no such file or directory\n"
Expected behavior
/drone/cache can be cached and restored correctly.
Should it be working? and are there currently test cases in CI which test the absolute path feature?
Describe the bug
It's possible that I am just making a stupid mistake, but here is a description of the problem. Trying to cache a directory that is outside the main source folder using an absolute path.
The workspace is "/drone/src".
Configure the drone-cache mount to be "/drone/cache".
Near the end of the build process, run "ls -al /drone" to observe the directory contents.
So, everything seems to be in place. The final step in the drone pipeline is to run rebuild:
mountpoints is a variable that in this case should be ["/drone/cache"]).
Archive format isn't specified, so it's using the default (tar).
The final output of the rebuild shows an error that the directory doesn't exist.
Expected behavior /drone/cache can be cached and restored correctly.
Should it be working? and are there currently test cases in CI which test the absolute path feature?