[Arm-dev] a plague farm ?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 04/29/2015 11:14 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>
> Just a quick status update for that plague farm :
>
> * The five armv7 nodes are running F21
> * fist one is actually plague-server
> * the 4 remaining ones are plague-builder nodes (connected now to
> plague-server)
>
> The reason why it takes more time than expected is that I had multiple
> issues within centos infra, so not only focusing on that build farm.
> It's cfgmgmt driven, so everything is done through something that can
> be reproduced easily (if we need to extend/move)
>
> Howard had to patch the plague packages to support armv7hl as
> supported arches
> I had to inspect and patch the plague-certhelper tool generating the
> initial keys/certs, as it was defaulting to md5 as signature
> algorithm, which doesn't verify on newer platform.
> We'll send our patches "upstream" (if there is still an "upstream" for
> plague :-p )
>
> As Howard has more or less an initial armv7 tree for centos 7, we
> decided it would be good to wait some extra days , and use his initial
> tree/repo to build against, and not bootstrapping (again from scratch)
> from f19/f20.
>
> Once that is done, and that builders can build rpms, we'll open up to
> people with instructions on how to use it (but basically that will
> mean using the plague-client tool)
>
> We also have to see how to import custom mock config files (and so
> also targets, from a plague builder/server PoV) if those are needed
> for specific packages

Please clear up one thing for me...

What uboot and kernel will be used for this?  One message seemed to 
imply that the building would be F19 based.

 From my work with F19 on my cubies and f21 and F22, I really want the 
current uboot and kernel, as multiple board support really works now, 
compared to how it was with F19.