CI: lint flake??

[edsantiago]

Seen just now in one of my PRs:

cmd/podman/pods/ps.go:214:40: directive `//nolint:revive,stylecheck` is unused for linter "revive" (nolintlint)
func (l ListPodReporter) Id() string { //nolint:revive,stylecheck
                                       ^
cmd/podman/pods/ps.go:228:45: directive `//nolint:revive,stylecheck` is unused for linter "revive" (nolintlint)
func (l ListPodReporter) InfraId() string { //nolint:revive,stylecheck
                                            ^
make: *** [Makefile:247: golangci-lint] Error 1

None of these lines has changed in months. lint hasn't changed (AFAICT). Test passed on Re-run. I don't understand what can cause a lint flake, but filing as a heads-up and placeholder should it start happening often.

[Luap99]

It had this problem yesterday locally. Very likely a bug in the linter. I guess it is time to update the linter anyway maybe this got fixed.

[edsantiago]

But how can it be a flake? I tend to expect the linter to be deterministic given the same linter, same checked-out tree.

Then again #15488 is a flake, too, and it shouldn't be. I'm starting to suspect that some of our CI boots are different from others.

[Luap99]

I don't know either, FYI I gave up updating the linter for now. Way to many changes required to make it work.

[github-actions]

A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.

[vrothberg]

The linter has been bumped since then, so I am going to close it assuming it was a fart in earlier/older version.