Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011, 12:24:34 schrieb Alexander Graf:
On 17.10.2011, at 12:01, Adrian Schröter wrote:
Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011, 20:29:38 schrieb Andrew Wafaa:
Michal has also been able to build gtk2 on native hardware too.
I injected gtk2 a while ago.
I am currently injecting a texlive build from Alexander.
Could we add these to the list of packages to inject? When building with Qemu gtk2 repeatedly causes a segfault and fails to build.
At some point we need to fix the build or we can not ever make an ARM distribution release. No matter what the reason of this failure is. Why not? All we need to do is to build on native hardware. I would much rather see people fix actual package problems than subtile QEMU bugs.
that would be also a solution, if we would have enough ARM hardware and it would also support KVM or XEN. However, I don't see this in short term.
In fact, I was thinking that maybe I'll write up a script that goes through all the "failed" packages in obs and tries to rebuild them on native hardware. Then we at least can build up a matrix of packages that are definitely QEMU bugs and we would have those packages covered by natively built working rpms, giving us the chance to move towards a full root fs that we can use to continue bootstrapping worker images.
Unless of course the packages we have now are enough to get a native worker rolling already. Maybe it really already is. Of course the kernel is left to do, but we can just use the one that already runs on the boxes there.
Alex -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de