On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM Guillaume Gardet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I assume this means until llvm builds are fixed they would just be stuck on the version that was last able to compile for a while? > > > 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 >
