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build-images fails with Expected environment variable 'RAPIDS_DATETIME_STRING' to be set and non-empty (run 32811823369).

rapids-datetime-string does not generate that value in CI, it only validates that something upstream exported it.

The value is already available: build.yaml passes build-datetime from compute-build-details to every other build job, and build-images was the only one not taking it. This wires it through and uses it directly, so the pin matches the wheels this run published.

Release builds are unaffected — RAPIDS_VERSION_SUFFIX is a no-op there.

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The build workflow now passes its computed build datetime to the image workflow. The image workflow uses this value for non-release cuOpt wheel versions and retains existing release and image tag-prefix behavior.

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Build datetime versioning

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Pass build datetime to image builds
.github/workflows/build.yaml
The build-images job now waits for build-details and passes its computed build datetime to the image-build workflow.
Generate image build versions
.github/workflows/build_test_publish_images.yaml
The image workflow accepts build-datetime and uses it to generate non-release cuOpt versions with a .post suffix. Release and non-release tag-prefix behavior remains unchanged. GitHub output paths remain quoted.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6d121

The change is intended to pass the build datetime into image builds so nightly images use the matching wheels, but the current head still risks omitting that value from the non-release wheel pin. Merge should wait until the workflow input is confirmed and corrected.

Suggested reviewers: gforsyth, jameslamb

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build-images failed with 'Expected environment variable
RAPIDS_DATETIME_STRING to be set and non-empty'.

rapids-datetime-string does not generate that value in CI -- it only
validates that something upstream exported it, and exits 1 otherwise.
It is exported by the RAPIDS shared workflows, which is why
ci/build_wheel.sh can use it. This image job is a plain ubuntu-latest
job that never receives it, and the variable is set nowhere in this
repo, so NVIDIA#1780's use of it could not work.

Setting it locally would not help either. The suffix must match the
timestamp the wheel job used, and a freshly computed one is simply a
different unpublished version -- the same 'No matching distribution
found' failure NVIDIA#1780 set out to fix. The value is not reachable from
here: the wheel jobs are shared-workflow calls and build.yaml exposes
no outputs.

Resolve the version from the nightly index instead. build-images runs
after wheel-publish-*, so the newest .post build of this base version
is the one this run produced. All cuopt packages share a single .post
number across arches and CUDA suffixes (verified on the index), so one
resolved version pins every install in the Dockerfile.

This also fails loudly and early when no matching wheel was published,
rather than deep inside pip in a matrix job.

Release builds are unaffected: they keep the bare version and never
consult the index.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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- Around line 97-100: Update the version-resolution logic around the resolved
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ramakrishnap-nv added a commit to ramakrishnap-nv/cuopt_public that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Addresses review feedback on NVIDIA#1792.

The '|| true' covered the whole pipeline, so a truncated response from
curl -sf could resolve against a partial listing and silently pin an
older build than the one this run published. Fetch the index into a
variable first, so a failed or partial transfer is an error, and let
'|| true' cover only the no-match case.

Also quotes the two GITHUB_OUTPUT redirects in this step. They are
pre-existing, but actionlint reports SC2086 for the whole run block
once it is edited.

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I don't recommend adding even more complexity to this workflow.

Is rapids-datetime-string needed at all here?

- name: Compute cuopt version
id: compute-cuopt-ver
run: |
source rapids-datetime-string
# .post<datetime> makes every nightly version unique (see ci/build_wheel.sh); ignored on release builds.
ver=$(RAPIDS_VERSION_SUFFIX=".post${RAPIDS_DATETIME_STRING}" rapids-generate-version)
# Remove starting 0s from version 25.08.0a18 -> 25.8.0a18
CUOPT_VER=$(echo "$ver" | sed -E 's/\.0+([0-9])/\.\1/g')
echo "CUOPT_VER=$CUOPT_VER" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
if rapids-is-release-build; then
IMAGE_TAG_PREFIX="$CUOPT_VER"
else
IMAGE_TAG_PREFIX=$(echo "$CUOPT_VER" | sed -E 's/([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)a.*/\1a/')
fi
echo "IMAGE_TAG_PREFIX=$IMAGE_TAG_PREFIX" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

In other words... do you actually need to preserve a history of all container images for every branch/nightly build?

If not, then just rely on rapids-generate-version + overwriting tags.

e.g. if yesterday's was tagged 26.10.0a123 and a new image is built today and tagged 26.10.0a123, it could just overwrite those old ones.

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Or if the only place this is invoked is from build.yaml, here:

build-images:
needs:
- wheel-publish-cuopt
- wheel-publish-cuopt-server
- wheel-publish-cuopt-sh-client
permissions:
actions: read
contents: read
id-token: write
packages: read
pull-requests: read
uses: ./.github/workflows/build_test_publish_images.yaml
secrets: inherit # zizmor: ignore[secrets-inherit]
with:
branch: ${{ inputs.branch }}
sha: ${{ inputs.sha }}
date: ${{ inputs.date }}
build_type: ${{ inputs.build_type || 'branch' }}

then just pass through the already-computed nightly version just like all the other workflows do:

build-datetime: ${{ needs.build-details.outputs.build-datetime }}

build-images failed with 'Expected environment variable
RAPIDS_DATETIME_STRING to be set and non-empty'.

rapids-datetime-string does not generate that value in CI, it only
validates that something upstream exported it, so NVIDIA#1780's use of it
could not work in this job.

The value is already available. build.yaml runs
compute-build-details.yaml and passes build-datetime to every other
build job; build-images was the only one that did not take it. Wire it
through and use it directly, which is what NVIDIA#1780 intended.

Because the datetime comes from the same build-details job that stamped
the published wheels, the pin resolves to this run's build. Resolving
the newest matching version from the package index was considered and
rejected: versions are keyed on distance from the last tag, so a
feature-branch build and a main build can share an alpha, and the
lookup could pick the wrong commit's wheels.

Release builds are unaffected: RAPIDS_VERSION_SUFFIX is a no-op there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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@ramakrishnap-nv ramakrishnap-nv changed the title ci: resolve the published nightly version for image builds ci: pass the build datetime through to image builds Aug 25, 2026
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@jameslamb you were right that the extra machinery was not needed, and it turned out to be simpler than either of us suggested.

I had claimed the datetime was not reachable from this job. That was wrong. build.yaml already runs compute-build-details.yaml and passes build-datetime to every other build job — build-images was the only one not taking it. I checked for a workflow-level outputs: block, did not find one, and stopped there, missing that it is a job output already wired into the same file six times over.

So the fix is now: add build-details to build-images's needs, pass build-datetime through, and use it directly. No index lookup, no curl, no error handling. Net diff is +13/-5 across two files.

On your question about image history: nightly tags already overwrite. IMAGE_TAG_PREFIX is 26.10.0a for every non-release build and create_multiarch_manifest.sh uses only that, so no per-build history exists today. The datetime is not used in any tag — CUOPT_VER feeds the pip install pin in the Dockerfile, and bare versions are never published, which is the failure #1780 was fixing.

Worth flagging separately: because merge and nightly builds share the 26.10.0a tag, an image tag does not identify a commit. If that matters for debugging, putting the alpha in the tag would be a separate change.

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definition to set required: true, ensuring callers must provide the timestamp
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An omitted optional string input arrives as an empty string, which
would yield RAPIDS_VERSION_SUFFIX='.post'. That normalises to a valid
but never-published version (26.10.0a69.post0), so the mistake would
surface as a pip resolution failure inside the image build rather than
at the workflow call.

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