We recently reworked our browser archive extraction to happen
at analysis time for better caching. This resulted in us breaking
the extraction of macOS dmg files so that Firefox is currently
not usable for local testing on macOS. We implement a similar special
logic for `.dmg` files to what has been done within the Bazel
webtesting rules.
PR Close#42992
Adds better caching for browser archives and their extraction.
This is done because the archives are currently extracted as a build
action and these are actions are invalidated frequently, causing
flakiness on the CI and slow-down in local development.
Here is an example flaky error on the CI (that surfaces often
with RBE execution):
```
ERROR:
/home/circleci/.cache/bazel/_bazel_circleci/9ce5c2144ecf75d11717c0aa41e45a8d/external/npm/@angular/dev-infra-private/bazel/browsers/chromium/BUILD.bazel:22:17:
Extracting ../org_chromium_chromium_amd64/file/chrome-linux.zip failed:
(Exit 34): extract.sh failed: error executing command
external/io_bazel_rules_webtesting/web/internal/extract.sh
external/org_chromium_chromium_amd64/file/chrome-linux.zip ...
(remaining 2 argument(s) skipped). Note: Remote connection/protocol
failed with: execution failed
```
We fix this by introducing a new rule that downloads a browser
archive and unpacks it directly into a Bazel repository. Before
this change, the archive would just be downloaded but extracted
later as part of a build action. This is unnecessary and results
in less efficient caching as build actions are invalidated more
often, especially if developers run `bazel clean` in between.
The root cause on why the extraction often fails in RBE containers
is unclear. It's unclear why the extacted archive is not cached
properly as part of a build action (most likely some hermeticity
issue within `rules_webtesting`, but it seems more Bazel-idiomatic
to unpack the archives as part of the repository anyway, and this solves
the flakiness issue.
PR Close#42814
Paul Gschwendtner