Publish Linux ARM deb & rpm repositories

[joaomoreno]

• Deb
  • Create working deb packages
  • Publish to MS repos
  • Migrate x64 repo over the new one
• RPM
  • Create working rpm packages - Thanks, @psgreco
  • Publish to MS repos
• Snap 🔴
  • Create working snap packages probably need ARM machines to build these
  • Publish to snap store

[m-roberts]

+1 for this!

[gizmotronic]

Any chance of publishing as a snap, as well?

[0x011011110]

This would definitely be nice - something I noticed is that the debs currently install a vscode.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ but it is limited to [arch=amd64] so it would be nice to have a sources.list that is correct

[joaomoreno]

@0x011011110 Yeah that's the biggest problem right now, we're looking into a good option right now.

[joaomoreno]

Snap packages are now created but they simply segfault:

joao@joao-ubuntu-rpi:~/Downloads$ gdb /snap/code-insiders/current/usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders 
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Reading symbols from /snap/code-insiders/current/usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders...
(No debugging symbols found in /snap/code-insiders/current/usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders)
(gdb) r
Starting program: /snap/code-insiders/x1/usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000008 in ?? ()

joao@joao-ubuntu-rpi:~/Downloads$ uname -a
Linux joao-ubuntu-rpi 5.8.0-1007-raspi #10-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 5 17:52:40 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
joao@joao-ubuntu-rpi:~/Downloads$ file /snap/code-insiders/current/usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders 
/snap/code-insiders/current/usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /snap/core/current/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, BuildID[sha1]=644557efd63781717386f34776877ca4e9fd0104, for GNU/Linux 3.7.0, stripped

[joaomoreno]

@flexiondotorg: As tweeted in https://twitter.com/joaomoreno/status/1329704593366847488:

Hitting some issues. I thought that using build-on: amd64 and run-on: arm64 would get us there: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/111008/files#diff-74c4ea7e8a7229121137b67faf75b6808d948fbbd120adb7b0f763a52b975dedR9-R12 But the resulting snap still has an amd64 base system, so code segfaults.

Aside from snapcraft remote-build it seems we can only get ARM snaps if we run it on ARM hardware, did I get that right?

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Because of this snap ARM are currently blocked.

[joaomoreno]

We also need some help figuring out how to list RPM dependencies for ARM, since the current approach doesn't seem to work, when testing on CentOS 7 for Raspberry Pi 4 aarch64. The RPM package fails to install due to missing dependencies. So if there are some RPM fans in the community out there, any help is appreciated.

[joaomoreno]

Thanks to @psgreco, we now have working ARM RPM packages 🎆

[bpasero]

@joaomoreno let me know if you need any help