On 4/27/21 6:39 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Background story : for some SIGs building for/against 8-stream (and > hopefully soon for/against 9-stream), we'd like to upgrade > cbs.centos.org to koji 1.23 and all components on CentOS 8-stream. > > The current setup is based on koji 1.19 on top of CentOS 7 nodes. > While we have tested that it works fine for all builds and signing with > 8-straem (tracking ticket https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/233) we > have though a "small" issue that we'd like to announce first here : > 8-stream doesn't exist for the following architectures : ppc64 (Big > Endian, while ppc64le - Little Endian - exists) and armhfp. > > I had a quick survey on what is being built/maintained (and so pushed > out to mirror CDN) and ppc64/armhfp aren't even used. So it seems that > removing ppc64/armhfp support from CBS is the way to go and it wouldn't > hurt any SIG. > There is a separate 8 Linux hostname for armhfp and with the new Automotive OS project, I have a feeling 8 Stream and 9 Stream armhfp branches will open up. Automotive OS: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-sets-sights-delivering-first-continuously-certified-linux-platform-vehicles > The only SIG that actually builds and ships packages to external mirror > is the Infra SIG (so "us"), but we're building pkgs just because we had > to maintain that arch ourselves, meaning that if we remove it from cbs, > we don't have to maintain infra for ppc64 anymore (for SIG, as pkgs from > CentOS 7 distro itself will continue to be built and shipped, but they > aren't built on cbs anyway) > > Opinions ? thoughts ? > > Depending on feedback (or lack of in this case), I'll announce the > maintenance window about cbs.centos.org migration to 8-stream in the > next days (normally planned for next week but waiting for some feedback) >