[BIGTOP-2474] Improve handling of gradle home

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Olaf Flebbe
• Reporter: Olaf Flebbe
• Created: 07/Jun/16 21:08
• Updated: 29/Mar/17 18:46
• Resolved: 08/Jun/16 19:38

Description

The optimazation within build.gradle to create a /usr/share/gradle.home directory does not fully work.

At each time the file
https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/gradle/plugin/org/nosphere/apache/creadur-rat-gradle/0.2.0/creadur-rat-gradle-0.2.0.jar
is downloaded.

Propose to remove all this code alltogether and substitute it with a more docker-ish approach:

Generate a clean container with the toolchain. Start it running ./gradlew within. Commit it as bigtop/slaves:trunk-os

A local prototype looked very promising and decreased startup time.

Issue Links

• is related to: BIGTOP-2311 Use org.apache.bigtop.NullOutputStream to nullify gen-gradle-home output