Windows Reproducible Build Script - Ant Download And Install Fails

[steelhead31]

What are you trying to do?

The windows reproducible build script fails when trying to download and install a version of Ant deduced from the SBOM ( see 

https://ci.adoptium.net/job/Test_openjdk21_hs_special.system_x86-64_windows/8/consoleFull

The reproducible build test deduced a requirement of Ant 1.10.5 from the SBOM, however newer machines (  test-azure-win2022-x64-4 )  only have the later Ant Version 1.10.15 installed. The jenkins automated process however has insufficient permissions to install an older version.

Expected behaviour:

Test should run ok with any suitable version of Ant.

Observed behaviour:

Test fails, when it should either detect a suitable version (  either  1.10.XXXX is allowed or ANY version of Ant is allowed )

Any other comments:

[sxa]

A few notes:

• ant update was done under unixPb: Update Ant version to latest 1.10.15 infrastructure#3747
• The new build machines that I'm trialling were configured with an old version of the playbooks so built with 1.10.5 last night. I'm looking at updating that so it won't recur.
• The test linked above did pass in the automatic rerun which selected a different machine ;-)

My gut feel is that it makes sense to relax the version of ant as per the proposal here. It's also only used for the SBoM generation so as long as we're using a version that's suitable for that we should be good (I don't think we do a comparison on the SBoM anyway, which which case it really doesn't matter)

Any thoughts @sophia-guo @andrew-m-leonard ?

[andrew-m-leonard]

Yes, lets relax the ant version