[Mageia-sysadm] ARM port and BuildSystem

[Thomas Backlund]

mån 2011-04-04 klockan 20:44 +0300 skrev nicolas vigier:
> Hello,
> 
> There was some discussions at last council meeting about making ARM an
> official port, and adding ARM machines in the build system :
> http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-meeting/2011/mageia-meeting.2011-03-28-18.33.log.html#l-381
> 
> Rtp has been working on a Mageia ARM port for some time, and I think he
> plans to have something useable soon, maybe for Mageia 1st release.
> After asking to rtp, a machine we could use for building packages on
> ARM is OpenRD :
> http://newit.co.uk/shop/products.php?cat=9
> It costs around £203.00 or 230 euros (+ shipping). So I think that's not
> very expensive.
> 

What about some omap4 smp system ?

I know pandaboard, but that one does not have any sane disk interface...

> However, this machine is a lot slower than the x86_64 build servers we
> have, so building big packages like LibreOffice will take much more
> time. And if we don't want to slow down all the buildsystem, maybe we
> should make the successufl ARM build not mandatory to upload packages on
> x86_64 and i586. So this require some changes in the BS. But I think
> it's something that can be done.
> 
> What do you think about this ?
> 

I guess we can allow it to build as fast as it can... 
after version freeze (and release freeze) it can catch up...

but what about qa ?

--
Thomas