[Dogfooding] Cannot build che-theia on che.openshift.io

Describe the bug

For daily development using che.openshift.io I need to be able to build Che-Theia project. For now it’s impossible to do.

Steps to reproduce

Create a workspace using this devfile

metadata:
  name: test
projects:
  - name: theia
    source:
      location: 'https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia.git'
      type: git
      branch: master
components:
  - id: redhat/vscode-yaml/latest
    type: chePlugin
  - mountSources: true
    endpoints:
      - name: theia-dev-flow
        attributes:
          protocol: http
          public: 'true'
        port: 3010
    memoryLimit: 3Gi
    type: dockerimage
    alias: che-dev
    image: 'eclipse/che-theia-dev:next'
  - id: che-incubator/typescript/latest
    memoryLimit: 2048M
    type: chePlugin
  - id: eclipse/che-machine-exec-plugin/latest
    type: chePlugin
  - id: eclipse/che-theia/latest
    memoryLimit: 2Gi
    type: cheEditor
    alias: theia-editor
apiVersion: 1.0.0

Then open a terminal in che-dev container, go to theia directory and build by yarn command.

When I turned off persist volumes, it did not affect the result.

attributes:
  persistVolumes: 'false'

After some playing with files (yarn builder creates, copies some files, etc), I got a message that quota has been exceeded.

Runtime

• che.openshift.io

Screenshots

[l0rd]

I have created https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/17205

[vitaliy-guliy]

@ibuziuk let me copy here a part of my email to che-dev where I explained how I develop che-theia.

The main idea is using temporary directory in the root where the limitation of disk space is 3 gigabytes, which is pretty enough to build the project.

The development flow includes:

• workspace creation, cloning theia sources
• copying sources to /tmp/theia directory
• initializing che-theia
• building
• launching
• making and applying changes

Workspace creation, cloning theia sources

To create a workspace I use devdile[1], which has a set of commands helping me to operate with source code. After starting, my workspace has cloned two theia and che-theia projects. I’m focused on developing packages in theia core, that’s why sources of che-theia temporary are not used.

Copying sources to ‘/tmp/theia’ directory

To copy sources to ‘/tmp/theia’ directory I use rsync, running in che-dev container. As eclipse/che-theia-dev image does not have rsync tool, I had to extend that image[2] and install rsync. The devfile has ‘1 Rsync Theia’ command to easily synchronizing ‘/protects/theia’ directory with ‘/tmp/theia’.

$ rsync -rtv --exclude='node_mobules' /projects/theia/ /tmp/theia/;

Initlalizing che-theia

To initialize che-theia we need to run ‘che:theia init’ in ‘/tmp/theia’ directory. The ‘2 Init che:theia’ command does that in one click.

Building

‘3 Build che:theia’ command runs ‘yarn’ in ‘/tmp/theia’ directory.

Launching

For Che-Theia I prefer to use dedicated directories for plugins, default plugins and for projects, which is used as Theia workspace directory. In the directory with default plugins I copy all the plugins from ‘/default-theia-plugins’, which is accessible only from ‘theia-ide’. That’s why ‘4.1 Prepare theia-* dirs’ command is running in that container.

$ mkdir -v /projects/theia-default-plugins
$ mkdir -v /projects/theia-plugins
$ mkdir -v /projects/theia-projects-dir
$ cd /default-theia-plugins
$ cp -v * /projects/theia-default-plugins/

‘4.2 Launch’ command sets necessary variables and launches Che-Theia in ‘che-dev’ container.

$ cd /tmp/theia/examples/assembly
$ export CHE_PROJECTS_ROOT="/projects/theia-projects-dir"
$ export THEIA_DEFAULT_PLUGINS="local-dir:///projects/theia-default-plugins"
$ export THEIA_PLUGINS="local-dir:///projects/theia-plugins"
$ export THEIA_PLUGIN_ENDPOINT_DISCOVERY_PORT='2506'
$ theia start /projects/theia-projects-dir --hostname=0.0.0.0 --port=3010

To open Che-Theia, click ‘che-dev/theia-dev-flow’ node in My Workspace view.

Making and applying changes

Each time after doing changes, I synchronize sources from ‘/projects/theia’ with sources in ‘/tmp/theia’ using ‘1 Rsync Theia’ command. Then I build Theia with ‘3 Build che:theia’ and launch with ‘4.2 Launch’.