On Mittwoch, 6. März 2013, 10:44:50 wrote Alexander Graf:
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> 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.
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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@suse.de