fix(e2e): Timestamp based forking deterministic e2e#2636
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fix(e2e): Timestamp based forking deterministic e2e#2636
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delete some empty lines to appease funlen
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Converting to draft for now in favor of the more simple immediate unlock for testing e2e with pectra: #2644. We may revisit this later. |
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This PR allows the e2e tests (and anything running the
devnetchain spec) to have deterministic fork times. The timestamps for each block will ignore comet timestamps and always increase by exactlyTargetSecondsPerEth1Block.This is not the cleanest solution because we have to add special cases to the production code to support testing. However, I found that it is the most deterministic and simplest solution.
I have explored other alternatives that will not work or are far too complex:
time.Now()call happens in the cometBFT library.time.Now()by usingLD_PRELOADto loadlibfaketime, which will allow us to arbitrarily control the outcome oftime.Now()for the binary. This has the same non-deterministic fork time problem, as well as being extra complex because our containers for beacond are runningalpineinstead of any form ofdebian, making it harder to install required packages.