Bileto and RiscV64

[Lukasz Zemczak]

I think the problem here is the general Bileto architecture, where
autopkgtests can only be triggered when all arch builds are finished
and 'diffed'. But if there are no objections, I could maybe change
Bileto to not care about riscv when performing checks, maybe besides
the final publishing step (in case someone wants to do Bileto publish
to the archive).

On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 16:28, Balint Reczey <balint.reczey at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 1:44 AM Steve Langasek
> <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 06:00:58PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > The builders for riscv64 are very slow, and since bileto wails for all
> > > builds to be ready, each ticket can take dozens of hours. Even if I
> > > disable that arch in the ppa (via a #webops request), bileto later
> > > enables it again.
> >
> > > Could we do one of the following:
> > > - disable riscv64 by default on bileto, and make it so it can be
> > > enabled (and remain enabled) in the ppa if the user so wants it
> > > - start bileto tests as soon as an arch build is ready, instead of
> > > waiting for them all to be ready as it is today
> > > - something else I haven't thought of :)
>
> Internally we already had discussions about disabling tests in riscv64
> builds to speed them up.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1891686
>
> As I understand it got a green light, just no one uploaded the fix yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Balint
>
> >
> > I mean, the other alternative is to not use bileto, which is not part of the
> > normal workflow and results in duplicate tests anyway?
> >
> > > I know we want to have packages working on riscv64, but since it's not
> > > blocking migration in the real archive, it seems unfair that it blocks
> > > bileto so much.
> >
> > It is possible that updating the britney instance used for bileto to match
> > the current code used for -proposed would address this.
> >
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