Failures of noarch package builds on ARM (Re: ARM Status)

[Dan Horák]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:25:45 +0100
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 03:05:34PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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> > hi all,
> > 
> > I have imported ARM into primary and enabled armv7hl in the arches to
> > be built. right now the KDE stack is not entirely built and brought in
> > due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988114 as soon as it
> > is resolved we will get everything fixed and brought in. at that point
> > arm will be added to the nightly composes. 
> 
> I've just attempted to build mingw-libvirt (which is noarch) in rawhide
> and was (unlucky?) that it got scheduled on an ARM builder. The build
> failed with
> 
>   checking build system type... Invalid configuration `armhfp-redhat-linux-gnu': machine `armhfp-redhat' not recognized

IIRC this is an issue of not translating the arm build architecture
from armhfp to armv7hl by koji/mock/rpm


		Dan

 
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5680000
> 
> This is odd because the mingw-libvirt src.rpm has the exact same
> tar.gz that we use in the native libvirt src.rpm which accepts
> arm as a build system type. So I'd expect that the configure
> script is already new enough to work with armv7 hosts at least.
> 
> Looking to see if mingw-libvirt was ever tested on ARM secondary
> builders, I can't find any build logs. Querying the noarch.rpm
> packages hosted on the ARM secondary builder koji host at:
> 
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/mingw-libvirt/1.0.5/1.fc20/noarch/
> 
> shows that they were built on the Fedora primary koji instance.
> 
> Randomly picking some other mingw packages (mingw-libpng and
> mingw-libxml2) shows they were also all build on x86 hosts and
> trying a build of them on arm hosts causes the same failure.
> 
> So am I right in thinking any noarch RPMs were just copied across
> to the ARM koji as-is, without attempting to rebuild them ?
> 
> If so, it seems we might have a bunch of noarch packages which
> are going to turn out to be broken if unlucky to have their
> builds scheduled on ARM.
> 
> Side-note, even if the packages worked fine, is it a good idea to
> allow noarch builds to be scheduled on ARM, given that ARM is so
> much slower ? It seems we're wasting precious ARM builder cycles,
> as well as maintainer time, by letting noarch builds go to the
> slower ARM builders instead of x86 builder hosts.
> 
> /me goes to play russian roulette triggering rebuilds of the
> mingw-libvirt package until koji picks an x86 host
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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