[Dev] [ARM] Parabola ARM Port progress

[aurelien]

fauno <fauno at endefensadelsl.org> writes:

> André Silva <emulatorman at riseup.net> writes:
>
>> Hey, some days ago we were talking about how to begin Parabola ARM
>> project. The following points suggested were the next one:
>>
>> * Ebrasca sent a email (in spanish language) because he has interest to
>> donate some ARM devices for the Parabola ARM project [0]. I told
>> Jorginho to receive those devices to begin the project. He accepted it
>> to give access via ssh to the hackers use it for testing and debugging.
>
> awesome! \o/

Cool a Para ARM :)

>> * Gaming4JC said there are a lot of different packages to take from Arch
>> ARM [1]. e.g. arm5, armv6, armv7 and armv8 are all different. If the
>> packages will be a lot we should have separate mirrors, but it will also
>> would need more space for it.
>
> i think we'll need to pick the most used architecture or the one
> compatible with most of arm devices and focus on this.
>
>> * We would rsync pull from Arch ARM, but Gaming4JC confirmed on their
>> IRC that they do not allow rsync pulls. Critically, a mirror must to
>> able to be set up to receive rsync pushes from a server. e.g. a server
>> created by us. This can happen via rsyncd or over ssh. It do not make
>> use of rsync pull for mirroring. They allow mirroring under invite only
>> and custom rsyncd.conf and they push to mirrors. It was confirmed at
>> #archlinux-arm by a developer WarheadsSE. So for this work, we need
>> become a mirror and then fork their packages.
>
> maybe we can setup our mirror in a way that the unfree packages get
> removed in a second step, probably using a hard link backup so no extra
> disk space is used:
>
> arch-arm => private parabola mirror => public hard link backup with
> unfree packages filtered out
>
> the question is if arch-arm would agree to push to such a mirror.  in
> the past they've expressed disregard for free software, but i don't know
> if they would actively block a libre fork.
>
>> * We need more power man to maintain ARM packages like the same way than
>> we are doing in x86. Gaming4JC and ovruni have interest to begin it.
>>
>> * Icarious proposed fetch entire PKGBUILD and packages using a build
>> server as alternative way.
>
> it would be awesome if abs supported cross building :P
>
> is jorginho going to setup the arm devices on a distcc network?  this
> would require at least one extra x86 machine that's able to
> cross-compile for arm (with ct-ng-libre or any other cross-toolchain)
> and run a distcc server, so the arm device would delegate the compiling
> part to it and just take care of linking and packaging (which is not
> always the lighter part of the process, but still).
>
> the arch arm people does this and i've tested succesfully on the
> mips64el port.  it's not difficult to setup, it just needs the distcc
> option enabled on the arm makepkg.conf and the distccd service running
> on the x86 machines, appropiately configured to have the cross toolchain
> in its PATH.
>
> i would also advise to use dagpkg from libretools, since it can build
> From abs in correct order of dependencies, and detect some circular
> dependencies that i guess still exist in abs.
>
> i can't commit to be an arm porter but i can give advise and some rants
> :)
>
> would it be possible to give libremakepkg the ability to run on a remote
> build machine?  i'm thinking it would involve copying the files over ssh
> to this machine and instruct it to run the local libremakepkg.

If we are speaking about the building package remotly ... that is what
I did (often) before my laptop ~ died

>> Considerations and suggestions are welcome as we move forward with this
>> project! :)
>>
>> Happy hacking \o/



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Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
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