fix(astera): keep pixi's cache off the NFS home volume - #369
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Any environment with a git dependency fails to solve in an ACTL workspace. protpardelle is the one people hit: failed to solve the pypi requirements of environment 'protpardelle-dev' ... fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/home/dev/.cache/rattler/cache/uv-cache/git-v0/db/<hash>' ACTL mounts $HOME from an nfs-shared PVC whose export squashes every write to nobody (65534) while the container runs as root, so uv's git cache — which pixi places under its own cache dir — ends up in a tree root does not own, and git refuses to operate on it. Confirmed on the reporting pod: that directory is owned by 65534 and $HOME is the NFS PVC. Pointing the cache root at container-local disk makes root the owner and the clone succeeds. Verified the git cache then lands at /var/cache/pixi/uv-cache/git-v0 owned by uid 0. git config is not a usable fix here. This image ships git 2.34.1, where only an exact path or the bare `*` is honoured — prefix globs such as /home/dev/.cache/* are silently ignored (tested all four forms). Cache paths are content-hashed so exact entries are whack-a-mole, and `*` would also disable the ownership check on genuinely shared volumes like /mnt/diffuse-shared. UV_CACHE_DIR does not work either: pixi ignores it and keeps the uv cache under its own root (tested). pixi already redirects its repodata and pypi-mapping caches off network filesystems by itself and warns while doing so; it just does not extend that to the uv cache. This applies the same treatment to all of them. Trade-off: the download cache no longer survives a pod restart. Environments live in the synced checkout and are unaffected.
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the Astera overlay image to keep Pixi’s cache on container-local storage (instead of the NFS-backed $HOME) to avoid git “dubious ownership” failures when solving environments with git+https:// dependencies in ACTL workspaces.
Changes:
- Set
PIXI_CACHE_DIR=/var/cache/pixiinDockerfile.asteraso uv’s git cache is not created under the NFS-mounted home directory. - Create the cache directory during image build (
/var/cache/pixi) and document the operational rationale and trade-offs.
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| # `git config --global --add safe.directory` is not a usable fix here: this | ||
| # image ships git 2.34.1, where only an exact path or the bare `*` is honoured — | ||
| # prefix globs are silently ignored (verified). The cache paths are | ||
| # content-hashed, so exact entries are whack-a-mole, and `*` would disable the |
| # the cache root to container-local disk covers all of them. The trade-off is | ||
| # that the download cache no longer survives a pod restart — environments | ||
| # themselves live in the synced checkout and are unaffected. | ||
| RUN mkdir -p /var/cache/pixi |
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| # that the download cache no longer survives a pod restart — environments | ||
| # themselves live in the synced checkout and are unaffected. | ||
| RUN mkdir -p /var/cache/pixi | ||
| SAMPLEWORKS_SKIP_ENV_PREPARE=1 |
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Delete the stray assignment at line 58.
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In `@Dockerfile.astera` at line 58, Remove the standalone
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existing ENV block as the sole definition and preserving the surrounding RUN
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Any pixi environment with a git dependency fails to solve in an ACTL workspace. protpardelle is the one people hit — reported by @mewall:
Cause
ACTL mounts
$HOMEfrom annfs-sharedPVC whose export squashes every write tonobody(65534), while the workspace container runs as root. pixi places uv's git cache under its own cache dir, so agit+https://dependency is cloned into a tree root doesn't own — and git refuses to touch it.Confirmed on the reporting pod: that directory is owned by
65534,$HOMEis the NFS PVC, and the user is uid 0. The error surfaces as an unrelated-looking "failed to solve the pypi requirements", which is why it reads like a lockfile problem.Fix
Point
PIXI_CACHE_DIRat container-local disk. Root then owns the cache and the clone succeeds — verified the git cache lands at/var/cache/pixi/uv-cache/git-v0owned by uid 0.Why not the obvious alternatives
git config --global --add safe.directory— not usable. This image ships git 2.34.1, where only an exact path or the bare*is honoured. I tested all four forms:/home/dev/.cache/*/home/dev/.cache/rattler/cache/uv-cache/git-v0/db/**Cache paths are content-hashed, so exact entries are whack-a-mole, and
*would also disable the ownership check on genuinely shared volumes like/mnt/diffuse-shared.UV_CACHE_DIR— pixi ignores it and keeps the uv cache under its own root (tested).Note
pixi already redirects its
repodataandpypi-mappingcaches off network filesystems on its own — thoseWARN cache … is on a network/parallel filesystemlines in the report are it doing exactly that. It just doesn't extend the same treatment to the uv cache. This applies it to all of them.Trade-off: the download cache no longer survives a pod restart. Environments live in the synced checkout and are unaffected, so the cost is re-downloading packages when an env is created or updated.
Workaround until this merges:
export PIXI_CACHE_DIR=/var/cache/pixiin the pod, orgit config --global --add safe.directory '*'.Summary by CodeRabbit
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