On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 10:57 +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, at 10:33, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 10:19 +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, at 22:58, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:59 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > > > > I have to note that YP does not support ppc systems as build hosts;
> > > > > can this be kept in a bbappend?
> > > > 
> > > > It isn't official but there are obviously people using it. I think we 
> > > > should try
> > > > and do something in core but there is a question of how we maintain 
> > > > this given
> > > > our infrastructure/tests don't cover it :(
> > > 
> > > That's fair. Is it acceptable that it's tested by proxy in OpenBMC if 
> > > we can't work out anything else for YP CI? I don't expect anyone 
> > > maintaining the rust support to test ppc64le explicitly if they don't 
> > > have access. I'd be happy if the ppc64le checksums were just updated 
> > > along with the rest whenever the snapshots are bumped.
> > 
> > The challenge is we have no tooling or support for "bumping" those values. 
> 
> Yeah, that's familiar, when I sent the initial patch fixing the URLs I 
> hacked some stuff to force the BUILD_ARCH value to ppc64le on my x86-64 
> laptop. That's not a scalable approach.

Funnily enough, tweaking BUILD_ARCH was something I was wondering about in some
of our automated tests since that might reduce the changes of some things
breaking.

> Not having the tooling seems reasonable, as having it does kinda 
> suggest you'll try to maintain things you can't test. Even though I'm 
> trying to argue for that, again, it's not scalable and I understand the 
> push-back :)

That is the big worry as we can't really test it.

Cheers,

Richard


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