On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 12:44 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Adam Williamson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 11:43 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > if a dracut i686 build fails the dracut build fails and nothing changes, > > > the > > > compose is not blocked. your view here is not quite the reality of the > > > world. > > > moving i686 to secondary does not change that. > > > > well, wait, moving i686 to secondary *does* change that, doesn't it? If > > i686 is secondary, and a dracut i686 build fails, then the dracut > > x86_64 and armhfp builds will still get tagged, right? Just like right > > now, if dracut fails to build on aarch64 but succeeds on the primary > > arches, those primary arch builds get tagged. > > No, because we still need i686 in x86_64 multilib because of some > proprietary "stuff" (no idea, I don't use it)
Oh, right, so in theory it would, except multilib complicates things. Makes sense. > > > particullary in the way releng > > > is looking to redefine secondary arches. > > > > I would like to read more about this 'redefinition'. Where can I? > > In Flock Rochester talks. It was discussed in Dennis's rel-eng talk, > that should all be on video, and in the hallway quite widely where I > discussed it with a lot of groups/individuals. > > Basically for example it currently makes sense to say promote aarch64 > for server but not workstation (although that's starting to actually > move somewhere) and cloud so how do you define primary and secondary? > Well basically you remove koji from that definition and define it on > the product outputs. With i686 discussing/doing this for cloud/server > that is already basically happening. This is already done internally > for brew (internal brew for those that don't know) where all > architectures are built in the one build system. I'm fine with that, but if we're going to do that, I'd rather retire the 'primary' / 'secondary' terms as I think they'd only cause confusion. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
