[LTP] [PATCH] CI: do not checkout submodules

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Tue Nov 25 14:27:30 CET 2025


Hi Cyril,

> This was originally added so that kirk installation is tested. The
> problem is that this brings random failures when git.kernel.org timeouts
> when we are checking out submodules that are not needed for the build
> and neither for the installation.

> Unfortunatelly there is no support for selective submodule installation
> in github checkout action. There is an issue and pull request hanging:

> https://github.com/actions/checkout/pull/1866
> https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1969

> It looks like if we wanted to checkout only kirk submodule we would have
> to install git and run all the commands ourselves in the CI, which I
> would like to avoid. Hence this commit removes the submodules checkout
> from the CI, with that we sacrifice kirk installation testing but avoid
> random failures.

> Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>

I'm ok with it.
nit: I'd mention it is actually a revert of 9cde2740cc.

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

Kind regards,
Petr

> ---
>  .github/workflows/ci-docker-build.yml | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-docker-build.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-docker-build.yml
> index f7c779f63..09eb8bb6d 100644
> --- a/.github/workflows/ci-docker-build.yml
> +++ b/.github/workflows/ci-docker-build.yml
> @@ -125,8 +125,6 @@ jobs:

>      - name: Git checkout
>        uses: actions/checkout@v1
> -      with:
> -        submodules: 'true'

>      - name: Install additional packages
>        run: |


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