November 2020 - openSUSE Z Systems - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-zsystems] Fix them or dump them?
by Mark Stopka 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

There are some packages like aircrack-ng which I frankly can't imagine anyone running on IBM Z, I think we should decide if we disable them for s390x architecture or spent an effort fixing them, what do you think? -- Best regards / S pozdravem, BSc. Mark Stopka, BBA Managing Partner (at) PERLUR Group mobile: +420 704 373 561 website: www.perlur.cloud

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[opensuse-zsystems] Contributions by an IBMer
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hello together, I am an IBM employee (Linux Developer) at IBM since this month. This week I have received the approval to contribute to openSUSE Packaging for Z. Additionally, I am open to communicate Z specific topics to our company for our team. Before I had studied Computer Science in Nuremberg and wrote my Bachelor Thesis at IBM. I will switch from the Translation Team to the Z Systems Team at openSUSE now. I was allowed to see many failed packages for Tumbleweed. So I can see how I can help you here. Best regards, Sarah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-zsystems] Contributions by an IBMer
by Sarah Julia Kriesch 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi Sergio, Thank you for the introduction! Nice to see, that there are also SUSE employees interested for openSUSE for IBM Z. I was in contact with SUSE some months ago, when the additional hardware for the mainframe was missing (but ordered). It seems that it is integrated now. The open ticket is because of a network issue. Nobody ouside of SUSE can fix that. During the openSUSE Kickoff, there was the hint, that the resposibility for the mainframe has ben changed. Can you tell the new person about this important issue, please? It would be nice, if we can contribute together to openSUSE for Z. Additionally, I hope that I can convince more people of openSUSE. :) The approval for my contributions was only the first step. ^^ Best regards, Sarah Gesendet: Donnerstag, 05. November 2020 um 20:03 Uhr Von: "Sergio Lindo" <sergiolindo.empresa(a)gmail.com> An: "Sarah Julia Kriesch" <ada.lovelace(a)gmx.de> Cc: opensuse-zsystems(a)opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-zsystems] Contributions by an IBMer Hi Sarah, I am Sergio, working as a QA engineer at SUSE. It is nice to have more people interested in openSUSE for IBM Z. I am helping from the testing side by enabling openQA tests. See https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/34 I managed to enable two scenarios but we are having technical problems at the moment with the machine setup for the tests and they are showing only red. I expect to keep enabling the same scenarios that we have for SLE as soon as the testing machines are fixed. I have a lot of knowledge gaps in how the product is built, but just in case you need an overview, here is what I know. Tumbleweed installation for x86 is built in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory[https://build.open…, but Tumbleweed installation for s390 is done in the sub project https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems[https://b… And the build sent to openQA for testing is in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems:ToTest[ht… So, if you want to download and use the last Tumbleweed snapshot for s390, you can find it in https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems:ToTes… A lot of packages are inherited from the x86 project, so when you try to fix an inherited package, the submit request has to be done to the x86 (factory) package and the changes will get forwarded to the zsystems project Some s390 specific changes are are made in “OBS package links”, so that those changes are not made in the x86 version. (But, I think that Berthold, someone who is also fixing packages for s390, wanted to unify the changes so that package links are not needed). If you have any question, do not hesitate to ask. It is exciting to see how this small group of mainframe enthusiasts (mainframers?) starts growing. Kind Regards and have a lot of fun. -- Sergio Lindo Mansilla Software developer with DevOps tendencies Portfolio: http://binary-sequence.github.com/[http://binary-sequence.github.com/] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-zsystems+owner(a)opensuse.org

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