Speed up build by tuning apt and dpkg

[norwd]

I've adapted the recommendations of @abbbi's speedup.sh script to significantly reduce the run time of the various apt-get install steps in scripts/install_requirements.sh.

Compare a run without this change to one with this setup, note that the additional changes here all run in under a second:

This is a reduction of about 3-4 minutes, which I find very helpful in my infinite (im)patience 😂

[entorb]

Wow, that is very impressive!
Is there a reason, why you did not put it into a - name section and placed the commands in a single - run |?

PS: In the hpmor-de repo, I experimented with caching of apt package installations, that might also be interesting for you. Unfortunately, the LaTeX packages gave me headache, and I did not solve it for them. (and hence, not brought it here). Maybe you can solve these issues.

[rrthomas]

I like the speedups, but I don't like the maintenance burden, or lack of debuggability.

I would be happy with this sort of tweak if it was itself a GitHub action, so it can be improved and fixed independent of this project, and easily disabled for debugging.

[abbbi]

https://github.com/abbbi/github-actions-tune

Great, so can we use this action instead of patching our own actions?

[abbbi]

https://github.com/abbbi/github-actions-tune

Great, so can we use this action instead of patching our own actions?

yes, see:

https://github.com/abbbi/tuneme/

[norwd]

Wow, that is very impressive! Is there a reason, why you did not put it into a - name section and placed the commands in a single - run |?

I normally am a stickler for adding the name: section to my actions, but I'm try to keep the hpmor-eo repo Esperanto-only, so out of pure laziness I'm omitting the step names so there's less to translate 😂

PS: In the hpmor-de repo, I experimented with caching of apt package installations, that might also be interesting for you. Unfortunately, the LaTeX packages gave me headache, and I did not solve it for them. (and hence, not brought it here). Maybe you can solve these issues.

I've also elected to not go the caching route for precisely that reason... if you ever do solve them please let me know!

[rrthomas]

So just to be clear, I'd prefer a version of this PR that uses @abbbi's GitHub Action.

[norwd]

So just to be clear, I'd prefer a version of this PR that uses @abbbi's GitHub Action.

No worries, I'll update the PR shortly 👍

[norwd]

So just to be clear, I'd prefer a version of this PR that uses @abbbi's GitHub Action.

No worries, I'll update the PR shortly 👍

Done 🚀, I've tested this version, @rrthomas, and it seems to be work just fine. Thanks for making this invokable as an action @abbbi!

[rrthomas]

Thanks for this, @norwd. @entorb, please could you merge this if you're happy with it? Since you have worked on the GitHub Actions much more than me recently, I just want to ensure you are on board with this change!

[entorb]

Thanks!

I still think that placing a name with a description of what it does to this step would make it easier to understand for others.

[norwd]

Thanks!

I still think that placing a name with a description of what it does to this step would make it easier to understand for others.

@entorb, 🤦 yup I should have added that earlier. Done now

[entorb]

Merged and tested: about 30s faster in the apt install step.