From b744a87628c929d8cd2c55626fe71b83121857bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andre Anjos <andre.dos.anjos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:59:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [doc/macos] Add point to installation of mac builders
---
doc/macos.rst | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/macos.rst b/doc/macos.rst
index 5b1c82e4..3cafe4b4 100644
--- a/doc/macos.rst
+++ b/doc/macos.rst
@@ -176,11 +176,16 @@ Building the reference setup
builds_dir = "/Users/gitlab/builds" # set this or bugs occur
cache_dir = "/Users/gitlab/caches" # this is optional, but desirable
shell = "bash"
-10. While at the gitlab user, install `Docker for Mac`_. Ensure to set it up to
+10. So conda works properly on a shared builder, as the ``gitlab`` user, make
+ sure to create an empty, read-only file named
+ ``~/.conda/environments.txt``. Failure to create this file and make it
+ read-only to the gitlab user, will create a concurrence issue on the shared
+ builder, w.r.t. to conda.
+11. While at the gitlab user, install `Docker for Mac`_. Ensure to set it up to
start at login. In "Preferences > Filesystem Sharing", ensure that
`/var/folders` is included in the list (that is the default location for
temporary files in macOS).
-11. Reboot the machine. At this point, the gitlab user should be auto-logged
+12. Reboot the machine. At this point, the gitlab user should be auto-logged
and the runner process should be executing. Congratulations, you're done!
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