Provide arm64 OBS images

[jodh-intel]

For parity with x86_64 and #118, we should provide arm64 distro packages too.

[bilang]

：）

[nitkon]

: )

[Pennyzct]

Hi~ @jodh-intel, do you plan to or already be working on this issue? Just got back from a loooooong leave, so sorry for other non-responded arm issues. 😥😟

[jodh-intel]

Hi @Pennyzct - I just raised this for tracking, but don't have access to any arm systems I'm afraid. If you'd like to volunteer, just let us know ;)

[Pennyzct]

Hi @jodh-intel happy to volunteer and update the process asap ;) @Weichen81 @hejianet

[jodh-intel]

Hi @Pennyzct - thanks very much - it's all yours! 😄

You may have seen this thread on the ML:

• http://lists.katacontainers.io/pipermail/kata-dev/2018-October/000505.html

I'm sure @marcov, @nitkon and @jcvenegas can help out with any question you have about OBS architecture-specific issues.

[marcov]

Hi @Pennyzct, we recently opened a new issue to track the process of building for different architectures.

I just sent a new answer to the ML with the next activities planned: http://lists.katacontainers.io/pipermail/kata-dev/2018-October/000507.html
Are you interested in working on any on those?
(btw, I just realized my email client sucks with HTML emails).

To start experimenting, you could set up a new home project on OBS, or have @jcvenegas create a new one under home:katacontainers. This is e.g. what is doing @nitkon for ppc64le and it's a short term solutions to have packages building for different archs.

[Weichen81]

; ) +1 @Pennyzct @jodh-intel

[Pennyzct]

Hi~@marcov I'm pretty a newbie to OBS. i was trying to set up a new home project home:penny:branches:home:katacontainers:release/runtime following the katacointainers project, am i in a right path?
then i'm trying to edit arch info through osc meta prj and osc build to see if it works properly.

[jodh-intel]

I wonder if it's worth putting some notes on the process for adding support for a new architecture to the OBS Kata project. It doesn't need to be a formal doc and could live in a wiki maybe? :)

[marcov]

Hi~@marcov I'm pretty a newbie to OBS. i was trying to set up a new home project home:penny:branches:home:katacontainers:release/runtime following the katacointainers project, am i in a right path?

Hi @Pennyzct, that project path is fine, although if you like, when branching you can give it a shorter/simpler name.
(does not need to contain branches:home:katacontainers:release).

Note that home:katacontainers:releases:x86_64:master is updated more often than release, so you may want to branch from that.

then i'm trying to edit arch info through osc meta prj and osc build to see if it works properly.

osc meta prj: sounds good (with the -e option), just fyi you could also use the web ui for setting repositories/architectures.

osc build: without any other options, this will build for aarch64 only if your host is a aarch64 too.

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Would you be interested in working on Ubuntu build rules?

If so:

1. you'll need to add this repository Ubuntu:18.04:Ports. These are the packages available: https://build.opensuse.org/project/meta/Ubuntu:18.04:Ports . As you see there are multiple repositories there (standard, universe,update).
2. you'll need to change build rules for deb (debian.* files) so that the golang package in the Ubuntu repository is used instead of the binary copy in the packages sources.

[Weichen81]

@jodh-intel About the OBS, we may need to pass some legal issue, and @Pennyzct will attend OSSEU next week to delivery a talk, so she may need sometime to start the OBS work. She is rehearsing the presentation hard ; )

[jodh-intel]

Hi @Weichen81 - thanks for the update. Sounds like we need a volunteer with ARM skills :)

[Pennyzct]

Hi guys
We're working on the OBS issue now and I'm trying to follow the instruction here. Hope I'm in the right direction.
Here is the thing, I got errors as follows:

$ LOCAL="1" OBS_SUBPROJECT="aarch64:alpha" ./build_all.sh  master
======= Updating qemu-vanilla =======
home:katacontainers:aarch64:alpha/qemu-vanilla
Server returned an error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Error getting meta for project 'home%3Akatacontainers%3Aaarch64%3Aalpha' package 'qemu-vanilla'
home:katacontainers:aarch64:alpha
ERROR: failed to checkout:makeurl: https://api.opensuse.org ['source', 'home%3Akatacontainers%3Aaarch64%3Aalpha', 'qemu-vanilla', '_meta'] {}

Do I need to acquire some authentications/privileges here? 😵😵😵 or I just went the wrong path😂

cc @stevecapperarm