On Mittwoch, 6. März 2013, 11:01:52 wrote Alexander Graf:
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> Am 06.03.2013 um 10:54 schrieb Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>:
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> > On Mittwoch, 6. März 2013, 10:44:50 wrote Alexander Graf:
> > >
> > > Am 06.03.2013 um 09:39 schrieb Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet@free.fr>:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Le 05/03/2013 21:50, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
> > > >> On Monday 04 March 2013 17:39:50 Alexander Graf wrote:
> > > >>> On 03/04/2013 04:39 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > >>>> On Thursday 28 February 2013 16:57:09 Alexander Graf wrote:
> > > >>>>> On 28.02.2013, at 14:58, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > > >>>>>> On Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2013, 14:50:16 wrote Alexander Graf:
> > > >>>>>>> On 27.02.2013, at 09:49, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> > > >>>>>>>> Le 27/02/2013 09:33, Dirk Mueller a écrit :
> > > >>>>>>>>> Hi Guillaume,
> > > >>>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>>> Look at devel:ARM:AArch64:12.3, we have around 1500 packages as
> > > >>>>>>>>> well. No image yet though.> > >
> > > >>>>>>>> Oh, 2113 packages in succeeded state! Awesome! Too bad that we have
> > > >>>>>>>> no image yet. I guess kiwi need some hack to get AArch64 image?
> > > >>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>>> The plan was to do an announcement about the state today. Too bad
> > > >>>>>>>>> that Debian was faster :-(> > >
> > > >>>>>>>> Indeed but if we say: 2113 packages built, it is not so bad. :)
> > > >>>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>>> Any help with the announcement for s greatly appreciated.
> > > >>>>>>>> Not too much time today but I will try to give some help about that.
> > > >>>>>>>> Any etherpad or wiki page for collaboration?> >
> > > >>>>>>> Email should be fine. Let's take the text below as a starting point.
> > > >>>>>>> We really need to get this out this week or on Monday. Jos, I would
> > > >>>>>>> greatly appreciate any help you could provide.
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> openSUSE on AArch64
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> openSUSE is joining the crowd of 64 bit enabled ARM distributions.
> > > >>>>>>> Within the past few months, the openSUSE team has worked very hard to
> > > >>>>>>> get openSUSE up and rolling on ARM's new 64 bit capable architecture.
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> By now, about 2400 packages built successfully. This is more than one
> > > >>>>>>> third of the whole distribution. From all we know it's also more
> > > >>>>>>> successful package builds than any other Linux distribution has on
> > > >>>>>>> AArch64! If you'd like to see the status yourself, please check out
> > > >>>>>>> the OBS repository we created for this [0].
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> As an open distribution, we also worked really hard to enable
> > > >>>>>>> contributors to easily participate in the effort. For this, we
> > > >>>>>>> extended osc (the OBS command line client) to automatically spawn a
> > > >>>>>>> Foundation Model [1] virtual machine when you want to build for
> > > >>>>>>> aarch64. More information on this is available on the respective wiki
> > > >>>>>>> page [2].>
> > > >>>>>> I'd like to have a quote for OBS itself also in that text, if
> > > >>>>>> possible:
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Also our upcoming Open Build Service release 2.4 will fully support
> > > >>>>>> aarch64 builds. Natively or using an emulator. This release can be
> > > >>>>>> used
> > > >>>>>> to build additional aarch64 packages or entire distributions at your
> > > >>>>>> side.
> > > >>>>> I don't think this fits in with the openSUSE announcement to be honest.
> > > >>>>> When I put it in, it somehow reads out of place.
> > > >>>> let me worry about that ;-)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> /me is editing this now to publish it soonish.
> > > >>> We actually managed to build a working image last night. So the
> > > >>> announcement needs to be extended a bit with
> > > >>>
> > > >>> - a download link to the image
> > > >>> - a wiki page explaining how to boot the image in the foundation
> > > >>> model + screenshot
> > > >>> - new successful build number (> 3500)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Could you please send me your current updated version so I can extend it?
> > > >>> :)
> > > >> Latest is below but Agustin told me we'd talk tomorrow about how to do this.
> > > >> https://news.opensuse.org/?p=15341&preview=true
> > > >
> > > > According to the dirk's announce on the cross-distro ML [0], packages built are now 4000 and not only 2400! ;)
> > >
> > > Yes, Adrian screwed up the OBS instance that compiles all these packages, ending up in removal of most built binaries :(. The sources are still fine and fixed, but we need to recompile them for some reason.
> >
> > hey, hey, it was a really long standing OBS bug, not me personal removing stuff, just for correctness.
> > It got actually fixed yesterday by us.
> >
> > And be happy that I watched the log file at all at that point by chance or everything would went away.
>
> Oh come on, we all know that you were simply planning this 3 years ahead to hit right when we want to announce how many packages were built ;).
The external view will not jump back, the syncing is disabled atm. We can decide at any point to enable it again.
> No really, it was a combination of bad circumstances. We just like to blame Adrian personally for anything that goes wrong ;).
thank you :)
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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@suse.de