Launchpad itself

Please support arbitrary arch/buildd affinity for arch:all builds

Bug #217427 reported by Adam Conrad
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Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
William Grant

Bug Description

There are some rare cases (palo and openhackware are the current ones) where an arch:all package contains arch-specific compiled code (palo is an hppa bootloader, but arch:all to support cd image mastering, openhackware is powerpc firmware code, but arch:all so it can run in arch:any powerpc emulators).

It would be handy if, on an as-needed basis, I could say "please ignore the arch:all = i386 rule for this package, and build it on hppa/powerpc instead".

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lp://staging/~wgrant/launchpad/xbia
Colin Watson (community): Approve
Diff: 398 lines (+184/-80)
6 files modified
lib/lp/soyuz/adapters/buildarch.py (+54/-21)
lib/lp/soyuz/adapters/tests/test_buildarch.py (+82/-21)
lib/lp/soyuz/interfaces/sourcepackagerelease.py (+3/-0)
lib/lp/soyuz/model/binarypackagebuild.py (+26/-38)
lib/lp/soyuz/model/sourcepackagerelease.py (+6/-0)
lib/lp/soyuz/tests/test_build_set.py (+13/-0)
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James Troup (elmo) wrote :

This is pretty important (despite the apparently limited number of packages involved) since the current workaround is basically to upload binaries via the backdoor which is evil and wrong in so many (hopefully obvious) ways.

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Confirmed
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: motu
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: nobody → Celso Providelo (cprov)
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Triaged
tags: added: soyuz-build
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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

This is still an issue for packages such as openhackware (bug #64501) or openbiios-sparc (bug #183495)

Changed in soyuz:
assignee: Celso Providelo (cprov) → nobody
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

I chatted to Persia yesterday and we can probably add a new header like

X-Arch-Indep-Build-Arch: sparc

and use that to override the nominated arch-indep. Making Soyuz dispatch builds to any arch for arch:all is a much harder fix.

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

If someone wants to attempt a fix on this I'm happy to mentor.

Robert Collins (lifeless)
tags: added: feature
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Trung Ngô (ndtrung4419) wrote :

Some one please stand up and fix this. As you can see in the link below, the i386 buildbots are too hard at work while all other bots stand idle, which is an IMMENSE WASTE. Whenever I put an "any" package on my ppa, the amd64 build happens in less than 5 mins while the i386 build takes forever.

https://launchpad.net/builders/

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

@Ngô Trung: I'm afraid that has nothing to do with this bug report, despite some superficial resemblance. That's more like bug 285206.

William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → William Grant (wgrant)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :

Fixed in stable r17338 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/17338>.

tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

Source packages can now specify a Build-Indep-Architecture field containing an architecture spec on which to build the architecture-independent packages.

This isn't just a simple override of nominatedarchindep. Arch-indep will only ever be built on an architecture matching the indep spec, and a build will be created if necessary and possible even if Build-Indep-Architecture's value is mutually exclusive with Architecture.

One corner case when the field is omitted has changed: "all" now only forces a nominatedarchindep build if it is the sole term in the Architecture field. Previously an Architecture value of "doesnotexist all" would resolve to nominatedarchindep, but that must now be forced with a Build-Indep-Architecture.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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