Hi All, So it's been discussed a little about doing a EPEL bootstrap for new architectures. We have a number of arches wanting to do this (ppc64le, aarch64, i686, s390x). So ppc64le will be our first and this is an overview of the process I'll be using to do it. Once it's complete I'll do a better write up as I suspect some things will evolve as we go on down the path.
So the general overview of the process is: 1) add new builders to koji (ppc64le complete) 2) create separate inherited build target and tag (epel7-archbootstrap) with associated architecture 3) run scratch builds in that target using the git commit hashes from the latest builds in the epel7, epel7-testing and epel7-candidate tags 4) For each scratch build completed, run mergeScratch(task_id) 5) when all builds are complete enable the arch on the main epel7 target 6) sign all new packages 7) update bodhi, pkgdb, mash configs 7) mirror out I have some scripts to do the above which I'll publish for reference once I've cleaned them up a little. This process isn't perfect. The new arch builds may not have the exact same build dependency NVRs because, at least in the case of ppc64le, the first EL7 release with .el7 distags is 7.2 and obviously most of epel7 is built against < 7.2. The mergeScratch koji API call imports all the build logs which helps mitigate this from a debug PoV. There's not really a good way to deal with this, and obviously once the new arch is enabled they'll be the same moving forward. I don't see it as an issue really, just making note of it here for reference. Looking at the current stable epel7 builds, as of a couple of days ago, we have around 4763 source packages, of which 2686 are noarch (and hence don't need to be rebuilt) and a touch under 2077 (2077 at time of check) are arch dependent. Let me know of any queries, questions, concerns etc Peter _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
