[CentOS-devel] [Arm-dev] [RFC] Bootstrapping a new arch

Fri Oct 21 16:40:56 UTC 2016
James O'Connor <jpoc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> On Oct 21, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21/10/16 13:41, Xiandong Meng wrote:
>> I am looking for building RDO for ppc64le in centos as well. Based on my
>> experience, there are a few source rpm changes needed to make them 
>> work with ppc64le. I would assume this will apply to aarch64 as well. 
>> 
>> One case in example is MongoDB. MongoDB 2.6.x depends on V8, but V8
>> cannot be built out of box on Power.  But MongoDB 3.2.x has a dependency
>> on a higher version of Boost than the CentOS 7.2 default.
>> 
>> So shall we work together on a common source repository across multiple
>> architectures or shall we maintain a side repo for aarch64/ppc64le?
>> 
> 
> if we can consolidate the altarch cloud sig content, that would be quite
> good!
> 
> would you also be able to use the same tag's for ppc8le as aarch64 ? or
> would this involve a complete new set of tags, and therefore a
> completely new way to run the merge ?
> 
> I guess a question for Thomas - how would a 3 way merge like this work
> anyway ? how would we track the srpms for content that changes per arch,
> unless we force all altarch to consume the same content, and ifarch the
> arch specific changes ?
> 
> regards
> 

I would be happy to step in and help with ppc64le RDO bootstrap too. I would hope the same altarch tags and targets would work for aarch64, ppc64le like qemu-kvm-ev in virt7-kvm-common-el7-build http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=12087