Refinements

Signed-off-by: osamamagdy <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ on:
   push:
     paths-ignore: 
       - '**.md'
+      - '.github/workflows/**'
   pull_request:
      paths-ignore: 
        - '**.md'
+       - '.github/workflows/**'
 env:
   DOCKER_REGISTRY: 'ghcr.io'
   PUSH_TO_MAIN: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}

config.mk

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ DOCKER_CMD := docker
 #   - DOCKER_BASE_RT_IMAGE_APT_ADD_PKGS (for all infrastructure containers)
 #   - DOCKER_BASE_DEV_IMAGE_APT_ADD_PKGS (for all images which build fabric/fpc code)
 #   - DOCKER_DEV_IMAGE_APT_ADD_PKGS (for dev image)
+# - You can mount your local go mod cache directory 
+#   to that of the docker image which allows caching of the dependencies and faster builds
+#   - GOMODCACHE_PATH (the path of your local go packages usually known by `go env GOMODCACHE`)
 
 
 # SGX related settings

utils/docker/Makefile

@@ -78,15 +78,18 @@ endif
 # allows to override with `buildx build`
 DOCKER_BUILD_CMD ?= build
 
-# allows docker to look for packages mounted on the host
-PACKAGE_MOUNT ?=
+# allows to mount host gomodcache into the container
+GOMODCACHE_PATH ?=
+DOCKER_GOMODCACHE=/project/pkg/mod
 
 # Docker run options
 # ------------------
 DOCKER_DEV_RUN_OPTS ?=
 DOCKER_DEV_RUN_OPTS += --rm
-# - mount local packages from the host to activate caching
-DOCKER_DEV_RUN_OPTS += $(PACKAGE_MOUNT)
+# - mount local gomodcache from the host
+ifneq ($(GOMODCACHE_PATH),)
+	DOCKER_DEV_RUN_OPTS += -v "$(GOMODCACHE_PATH)":"$(DOCKER_GOMODCACHE)"
+endif
 # - import docker daemon socket (so dev container can run docker)
 DOCKER_DEV_RUN_OPTS += -v "$(DOCKER_DAEMON_SOCKET)":"$(DOCKER_SOCKET)"
 # - mount local fpc repo into the dev container so development inside container is