s390x builds on buildfarm

On 2022-08-10 We 09:04, Vivian Kong wrote:

Hi,

 

Are builds being paused on s390x as it looks like the s390x builds
were last run 15 days ago.  If so, wondering what is the reason for
the pause and what is required to resume the builds?
The OS the builds were running on seems to have reached end of life. 
Please let me know if we can help with getting them updated and resume
the builds.

 

Mark, I think you run most or all of these.

cheers

andrew

--
Andrew Dunstan
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

Thanks Andrew. Mark, please let me know if I can help.

Regards,

Vivian Kong
Linux on IBM Z Open Source Ecosystem
IBM Canada Toronto Lab

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 9:56 AM
To: Vivian Kong <vivkong@ca.ibm.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, mark.wong@enterprisedb.com <mark.wong@enterprisedb.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: s390x builds on buildfarm

On 2022-08-10 We 09:04, Vivian Kong wrote:

Hi,

Are builds being paused on s390x as it looks like the s390x builds
were last run 15 days ago. If so, wondering what is the reason for
the pause and what is required to resume the builds?
The OS the builds were running on seems to have reached end of life.
Please let me know if we can help with getting them updated and resume
the builds.

Mark, I think you run most or all of these.

cheers

andrew

--
Andrew Dunstan
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

Hi,

On 2022-08-10 13:04:40 +0000, Vivian Kong wrote:

Are builds being paused on s390x as it looks like the s390x builds were last
run 15 days ago. If so, wondering what is the reason for the pause and what
is required to resume the builds? The OS the builds were running on seems
to have reached end of life. Please let me know if we can help with getting
them updated and resume the builds.

I realize the question below is likely not your department, but perhaps you
could refer us to the right people?

Does IBM provide any AIX instances to open source projects? We have access to
some via the gcc compile farm, but they're a bit outdated, often very
overloaded, and seem to have some other issues (system perl segfaulting etc).

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Hi everyone,

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 6:56 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

On 2022-08-10 We 09:04, Vivian Kong wrote:

Hi,

Are builds being paused on s390x as it looks like the s390x builds
were last run 15 days ago. If so, wondering what is the reason for
the pause and what is required to resume the builds?
The OS the builds were running on seems to have reached end of life.
Please let me know if we can help with getting them updated and resume
the builds.

Mark, I think you run most or all of these.

Yeah, IBM moved me to new hardware and I haven't set them up yet. I
will try to do that soon.

Regards,
Mark

Hi Andres,

Sorry I don’t have any connections in AIX. I couldn’t find info related to this. Sorry I couldn’t help.

Regards,

Vivian Kong
Linux on IBM Z Open Source Ecosystem
IBM Canada Toronto Lab

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 7:19 PM
To: Vivian Kong <vivkong@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: s390x builds on buildfarm
Hi,

On 2022-08-10 13:04:40 +0000, Vivian Kong wrote:

Are builds being paused on s390x as it looks like the s390x builds were last
run 15 days ago. If so, wondering what is the reason for the pause and what
is required to resume the builds? The OS the builds were running on seems
to have reached end of life. Please let me know if we can help with getting
them updated and resume the builds.

I realize the question below is likely not your department, but perhaps you
could refer us to the right people?

Does IBM provide any AIX instances to open source projects? We have access to
some via the gcc compile farm, but they're a bit outdated, often very
overloaded, and seem to have some other issues (system perl segfaulting etc).

Greetings,

Andres Freund

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:12 AM Vivian Kong <vivkong@ca.ibm.com> wrote:

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Does IBM provide any AIX instances to open source projects? We have access to
some via the gcc compile farm, but they're a bit outdated, often very
overloaded, and seem to have some other issues (system perl segfaulting etc).

It looks like the way IBM supports open source projects doing POWER
development and testing is via the Oregon State U Open Source Lab[1]https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/.
It's pretty Linux-focused and I don't see AIX in the OS drop-down list
for OpenStack managed virtual machines, but it has "other", and we can
see from the GCC build farm machine list[2]https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ that their AIX boxes are
hosted there, and a quick search tells me that OpenStack understands
AIX[3]https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PowerVM, so maybe that works or maybe it's a special order. I wonder
if we could find an advocate for PostgreSQL on AIX at IBM, for that
box on the request form.

(More generally, an advocate anywhere would be a nice thing to have
for each port...)

[1]: https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/
[2]: https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[3]: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PowerVM