npm GETs in CI can be flaky, can we cache them?

[workingjubilee]

idk if it's worth it but I thought I'd raise the subject.

see #142432

Executing TIDY_PRINT_DIFF=1 npm install eslint@$(head -n 1 /tmp/eslint.version) &&  python2.7 ../x.py test --stage 0 src/tools/tidy tidyselftest --extra-checks=py,cpp
+ head -n 1 /tmp/eslint.version
+ TIDY_PRINT_DIFF=1 npm install eslint@8.6.0
npm ERR! code E502
npm ERR! 502 Bad Gateway - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@humanwhocodes%2fobject-schema

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/user/.npm/_logs/2025-06-12T18_06_57_099Z-debug-0.log

cc @Kobzol @GuillaumeGomez

[Kobzol]

#142434 should fix this. It should indeed be preinstalled, if possible.

[workingjubilee]

@Kobzol Unfortunately it seems we have more than that tidy job pinging npm, though I agree it is the priority to fix: #142422 (comment)

[workingjubilee]

seems we also want to preinstall a browser-ui-test version?

+ head -n 1 /tmp/browser-ui-test.version
+ npm install browser-ui-test@0.20.6 --unsafe-perm=true

[workingjubilee]

huh...

rust/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/x86_64-gnu-tools/Dockerfile

Lines 79 to 105 in 6c8138d

	COPY host-x86_64/x86_64-gnu-tools/browser-ui-test.version /tmp/
	ENV RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS \
	--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
	--save-toolstates=/tmp/toolstate/toolstates.json \
	--enable-new-symbol-mangling
	ENV HOST_TARGET x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
	# FIXME(#133381): currently rustc alt builds do *not* have rustc debug
	# assertions enabled! Therefore, we cannot force download CI rustc.
	#ENV FORCE_CI_RUSTC 1
	COPY scripts/shared.sh /scripts/
	# For now, we need to use `--unsafe-perm=true` to go around an issue when npm tries
	# to create a new folder. For reference:
	# https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/375
	#
	# We also specify the version in case we need to update it to go around cache limitations.
	#
	# The `browser-ui-test.version` file is also used by bootstrap to emit warnings in case
	# the local version of the package is different than the one used by the CI.
	ENV SCRIPT /tmp/checktools.sh ../x.py && \
	npm install browser-ui-test@$(head -n 1 /tmp/browser-ui-test.version) --unsafe-perm=true && \
	python3 ../x.py check compiletest --set build.compiletest-use-stage0-libtest=true && \
	python3 ../x.py test tests/rustdoc-gui --stage 2 --test-args "'--jobs 1'"

[Kobzol]

Yeah, but now we just have to wait until half the internet comes back again.

[workingjubilee]

true, hard to cache anything if you can't get it in the first place.

[workingjubilee]

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