F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Dan Horák]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:56:40 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:17:47PM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 08:28 -0400, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> > > I still have serious concerns regarding build times:
> > > * arm -
> > > https://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=150248
> > > ~ 17h
> > > * current primary -
> > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=429023 ~1h
> > > 30m
> > > 
> > > This is still too huge gap - roughly 10 times slower. If ARM will
> > > become primary arch I hope this is an exception and not the
> > > general rule.
> > 
> > FWIW, the last libreoffice arm build of
> > https://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=152413,
> > took approx 14 hours. While
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=432079 took
> > approx 5 hours on x86
> > 
> > I can probably live with that without to much suffering, but it does
> > push build times from "start build today, get result today" to
> > "start build today, get results tomorrow".
> 
> Just a note that Koji is currently configured to time out builds after
> 24 hours.

the timeout is currently hard-coded in the koji sources, but patch
exists to make it configurable, I should ping upstream about it as not
only ARM fights with long build times


		Dan

> Not that you'd want your builds taking longer than this, but it's may
> affect the discussion ...
> 
> Rich.
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