[CentOS-devel] what about CentOS7 ppc64 ?

CentOS 7 ppc64 (big endian) lives

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.10.0-957.el7.ppc64 (mockbuild at ppc64-01.bsys.centos.org) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 14:03:26 GMT 2018

The official story is that there were some 32-bit ppc build failures for ppc64 multilib purposes and we didn’t want to hold up the 7.6.1810 show for the architectures. Throw in some end of the year holiday and January PTO and we have arrived at better late than never.

I have verified a complete ppc64/ppc os/ tree and a network install ISO. I’ll get the minimal and full ISOs done and we should have something to release in a few days.

I’m willing to support CentOS 7 ppc64 on a best effort basis as long as there is upstream Red Hat support for the architecture. If another CentOS community member wants to give ppc64 more priority and love, I’m happy to pass the ppc64 *maintainer* hat ;)

-James

> On Jan 21, 2019, at 12:57 AM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> Just wondering the status of CentOS 7 ppc64, as 7.6.1810 was released on
> December 3rd 2018 for all arches *but* ppc64, and no news since.
> 
> In the CentOS Infra, I had to maintain ppc64 hosts for both cbs/koji and
> other nodes, but as recently, someone decided to archive 7.5.1804 to
> vault, and also that there is no ppc64 anymore on mirrors, one having to
> deal with ppc64 is now in a position where :
> - it's impossible to install new ppc64 host
> - it's impossible to just "yum install" anything either
> 
> Can we get an official statement from the ppc64 maintainer about this ?
> Or should we consider that arch dead and unmaintained, and if so, I can
> remove ppc64 from the centos infra too ... (or maybe we should find a
> new maintainer, etc ..)
> 
> Anyway, any official statement would be good at this stage.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Fabian Arrotin
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