Use git-lfs to track ROOT files

[olantwin]

No description provided.

[olantwin]

@egamberini It seems like it causes issues for the CI if we use git-lfs to store ROOT files. Is this something we need to fix on the runners?

[egamberini]

Weird, I can't reproduce the error locally while using the gha-runner container, so it doesn't seem to be a missing dependency in the container itself.
The runner VM and its OS shouldn't affect what happens inside the container, but I'll investigate further tomorrow....

[olantwin]

Weird, I can't reproduce the error locally while using the gha-runner container, so it doesn't seem to be a missing dependency in the container itself.
The runner VM and its OS shouldn't affect what happens inside the container, but I'll investigate further tomorrow....

Thanks for the quick reply!

[olantwin]

@egamberini Did you have a chance to investigate why the runner fails?

[olantwin]

Alternatively, we might want to just move these files to EOS.

[egamberini]

I've managed to reproduce the error on different environments:

• container in runner VM
• container on local computer
• local computer

Only works on lxplus in my tests.

Therefore there must be a missing dep (maybe a python package or pyrooot extension that's present on lxplus system-wide and needs to be explicitly installed on other environments).
I've tried installing git-lfs as a system package but doesn't help.

Executing pip list | grep lfs on lxplus doesn't match anything.

I'm at a loss of ideas.

[olantwin]

@egamberini I think we're a step further, now it complains about the git-lfs executable missing.

[egamberini]

Nice! I've pushed a new container with git-lfs installed. That fixed the CI seems like...

[olantwin]

Nice! I've pushed a new container with git-lfs installed. That fixed the CI seems like...

Thanks a lot!