RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

[drago01]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> Maybe it's worth to ask them (or look at for example Mer builds)
>> what's
>> the difference in build times.
>
> A few statistics from build.meego.com - using the OBS and building in
> qemu. These are really just approximate numbers, built in different
> times with probably a different load...
>
> I took Qt as an example as it's a package I know.
>
> ------ build.meego.com -------
> http://build.meego.com/package/show?package=qt&project=Trunk
> armv8el
> build19 started "build qt.spec" at Sat Nov  5 02:09:33 UTC 2011.
> build19 finished "build qt.spec" at Sat Nov  5 03:01:43 UTC 2011.
>
> approx. 1 hour
>
> i586
> build17 started "build qt.spec" at Fri Nov  4 23:33:24 UTC 2011.
> build17 finished "build qt.spec" at Sat Nov  5 00:05:03 UTC 2011.
>
> approx. half hour (1/2)
>
> armv8el vs i586 factor of 2
>
> http://build.meego.com/package/show?package=qt&project=home%3Arrojfors%3Abranches%3AMeeGo%3A1.1%3ACore
> armv7el
> build42 started "build qt.spec" at Thu May 12 08:49:50 UTC 2011.
> build42 finished "build qt.spec" at Thu May 12 10:42:21 UTC 2011.
>
> approx. 2 hours
>
> i586
> build11 started "build qt.spec" at Thu May 12 08:49:48 UTC 2011.
> build11 finished "build qt.spec" at Thu May 12 09:09:47 UTC 2011.
>
> approx.
>
> armv7el vs i586 factor of 4
>
>
> ------ Fedora ------
> i686
> 2012-02-20 14:31:51,510 - Mock Version: 1.1.18
> 2012-02-20 15:05:21,089 - State Changed: end
>
> approx. half hour
>
> armv7hl
> 2012-03-18 17:58:09,566 - Mock Version: 1.1.18
> 2012-03-19 04:53:07,593 - State Changed: end
>
> better not calculating...
>
> So probably using Qemu could speed it up quite a lot. Also OBS offers

Those numbers look way better then Kevin's "50x slower without any
citation" ... thanks for getting this numbers.