Hi, On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 10:49:16PM -0300, Megver83 wrote: > El dom, 17-11-2019 a las 01:26 +0100, Andreas Grapentin escribió: > > - 500GiB of storage > > > > storage is getting a bit tight. We are planning to extend our > > repos > > to more architectures, chiefly ppc64le and riscv64, and we would > > not > > be able to host all the built packages due to limited storage > > capacity. > > Regarding the ppc64le and riscv64 ports, we have to discuss that > because we need more people for this *unless* we set up a functional > autobuilder for all our packages in a very capable machine (mainly > because there are some *very heavy* software). We can create a git repo > for modified PKGBUILDs like Arch32 and ALARM do, but for testing these > in real hardware (because IMO it's useless to waste time in porting to > architectures that are only going to be used in VMs or emulators) we > need testers (could be some Parabola devs with this hardware or very > collaborative users that own it). Plus, some packages won't cross- > compile using qemu (like libretools does with armv7h), which is sth. > that has happened to me with some armv7 pkgs, so I build them in my > Banana Pi and works. > > Idk how will we do for ppc64le, because the TALOS II is too expensive, > but there are other PPC computers (I'm digging a bit about them, I > already know the discontinued PowerMacs from Apple but I want to find > something more)
I agree that this development needs real, powerful hardware. That is why I have applied for funding from nlnet and am hoping to be able to purchase a Talos machine as well as two HiFive boards by the end of the year. If that happens, I will put some time into a smarter autobuilder. But this is something that's not due to happen before spring 2020. -A -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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