Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 8:59 AM > To: Bret Towe <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: Guillaume Gardet <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: delayed snapshots > > Hi Bret, > > On 17/11/25 17:54, Bret Towe wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been curious as to what causes the delays in arm snapshots from > > being on a regular cadence compared to x86? > > Also is there a place we can look to see what the delay might be if > > someone wants to try and help or avoid creating duplicate bug reports > > etc > > I think the delay on aarch64 lately is because of two things. > > 1. We enabled GCS (Guarded Control Stack), wich broke packages that were > requiered. One sollution was to trigger a full rebuild of the OS, which takes > it's > time. Afterwards there were some packages that needed fixes as well. Guillaume > can probably give more detalis on that. > > To see the status of the build, I use this project: > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:ARM > > But maybe it's a different one, like :Staging or :ToTest So again, Guillaume > can give > more insights.
Indeed, GCS enablement showed more failures than expected, so we have a workaround in place. Unfortunately, the flag added for the workaround breaks llvm builds. But this should not block the releases in short term. > > 2. Another problem was, that Grub2-BLS broke a lot of tests in openQA. > As long as the tests in openQA don't pass, we don't publish an update, as we > want > to assure stability of the distro. You can find the update of the openQA > status > here: > https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/3 Indeed, grub2 BLS showed lots of failures in openQA. There are still few ones, but I think we should be able to release with those ones. One more bug, added on top was https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253383 which broke lots of tests. Now it is fixed, we should be able to release current snapshot, if no blocker shows up in the remaining tests. Cheers, Guillaume > > Hope that's shed some light on this. > > Of course, we are always seeking hands that help to either look into build > failures > or fix openQA tests. > > Regards, > Matthias
