F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> > <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
> > 11:56:40 PM Subject: Re: F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary
> > Architecture
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Not that you'd want your builds taking longer than this, but it's
> > may affect the discussion ...
> 
> I started a new f20 build to see how things will go on and Koji
> estimates it to around 20h. See
> https://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1974977 .
> What are the possibilities for koji time out to be changed to 48h
> if/when arm becomes primary? This would be highly needed to not have
> to resubmit builds because koji timed out cause it hit slow builder.
> We have seen that few times when we tried to bootstrap secondary
> archs.

It  is a viable option to give us some room just incase.

Dennis
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