Add comment to gRPC template tests SkipOnAlpine attribute

[JamesNK]

re: #46462 (comment)

[adityamandaleeka]

Looks like they passed on the musl runs.

[JamesNK]

@dotnet/aspnet-build Do PRs run tests on alpine? I don’t want to merge this and then break main build.

[adityamandaleeka]

@JamesNK That's why I mentioned musl above. It runs on an alpine container:

Link to build log from this PR

[JamesNK]

Hmm, I think it's built there, but I don't think the template tests run there.

Helix Alpine queue only runs on the main build:

aspnetcore/eng/targets/Helix.Common.props

Line 43 in 5bd03bb

<HelixAvailableTargetQueue Include="$(HelixQueueAlpine314)" Platform="Linux" />

How can I run here from a PR? Temporarily update Helix.Common.props to add the queue to PR?

[dougbu]

Hmm, I think it's built there, but I don't think the template tests run there.

Helix Alpine queue only runs on the main build:

aspnetcore/eng/targets/Helix.Common.props

Line 43 in 5bd03bb

<HelixAvailableTargetQueue Include="$(HelixQueueAlpine314)" Platform="Linux" />

How can I run here from a PR? Temporarily update Helix.Common.props to add the queue to PR?

If by "main build" you mean aspnetcore-helix-matrix, then updating Helix.Common.props could work. The alternative is to head over to the pipeline and click Run Pipeline, selecting this branch.

You may want to rebase the branch first because Run Pipeline won't auto-merge w/ 'main' the way CI builds do.

[JamesNK]

The templates still fail on Alpine:

The issue was closed because a workaround was provided, and we're not doing that on our machine. I'm going to change this PR to update the attribute description.

[eerhardt]

a workaround was provided

IMO that workaround is bogus. Installing the glibc compat package is a crutch and not a real solution. If we support Alpine (which we say we do https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/7.0/supported-os.md), we should be building a musl-compatible binary. This is analogous to saying we support ARM64, but requiring Rosetta 2 to run on a macOS M1 machine.

[ghost]

Hi @eerhardt. It looks like you just commented on a closed PR. The team will most probably miss it. If you'd like to bring something important up to their attention, consider filing a new issue and add enough details to build context.