Hello Matthias, On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM Matthias Brugger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 I have stumbled across this before, it seems that the number of failures never is zero so does one just have to look through all failed projects to figure out who the problem child is? > > > But maybe it's a different one, like :Staging or :ToTest > So again, Guillaume can give more insights. > > 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 > > Hope that's shed some light on this. > I was not aware of the grub2-bls item before I had seen the GCS mentioned previously. so yes it was thanks. > > Of course, we are always seeking hands that help to either look into > build failures or fix openQA tests. > Is there any kind of guide/intro that gives an idea of where to start? the biggest item for me to consider helping is I honestly still don't understand how you systems works I assume its OBS flows into openqa, I don't see anything that suggests what is considered a blocker as an example > Regards, > Matthias >
