[rdo-list] Bootstrapping ppc64le packages

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Josh Boyer and I'm part of a team working on expanding
> architecture support for Openstack.  Our team is starting with ppc64le
> but we have interest in aarch64 as well.
>
> I'm looking to help bootstrap some of the missing dependency packages
> for Pike on ppc64le.  I've started with galera and done a successful
> scratch build here:
>
> https://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=189103
>
> I spoke with Alan briefly and he suggested to build the -3 version
> from Fedora master, but that added a dependency on asio-devel which is
> also missing on ppc64le in CBS.
>
> A successful scratch build of asio that includes ppc64le is here:
>
> https://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=189119
>
> but there is no newer version in Fedora, so the NVR is already present in CBS.
>
> I'm happy to bump the Release in asio and build that, and then build
> galera against it, but I thought I would bring the conversation here
> before I did anything.
>
> Thoughts?

Any ideas on this?  I'm happy to do the work.

josh