BIRD packages in Gitlab CI

[Jakub Ružička]

> The Gitlab CI should be extended to include that too.

No, not really. We don't we have mips runners in our GitLab instance nor
do we have access to mips HW to test on AFAIK. Also, CI is a testing
system, not a package distribution system.

Quoting wikipedia on MIPS architecture:

"In March 2021, MIPS announced that the development of the MIPS
architecture had ended as the company is making the transition to RISC-V"

Interest in mips is minimal and declining. As discussed before on-list,
only realistic way to get mips packages is through Debian which supports
it as platform.

Kees reported working on debian-backports some time ago in parallel to
my experimental/stable efforts (in progress), so perhaps he has some news?

If you want mips packages, I suggest you

a) contribute to Debian yourself so that mips package is available
b) build bird2-2.0.8 Debian package yourself from:
    1) experimental salsa branch I created for 2.0.8:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bird2/-/tree/experimental
    2) official 2.0.7 package with modifications

Debian has plentiful documentation including instructions on howto do
what you want to do.




Cheers,
Jakub Ružička
CZ.NIC packager 📦

On 5/21/21 7:08 AM, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote:
> Unfortunately, doesn't change the fact that Bird 2.0.8 is not
> available on mips.
> The Gitlab CI should be extended to include that too.
>
> P.S Do not email me off-list please.
>
> On 21/05/2021 8.05, Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote:
>> On https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/bird2 you can find all
>> flavours.
>>
>> K.
>>
>> On 21-05-2021 06:22, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote:
>>> Still x86_64 and i386 platforms only. :(
>>>
>>> On 20/05/2021 17.18, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Finally we managed to integrate apkg into Gitlab CI and now we not
>>>> only
>>>> have apkg metafiles in the master branch (so anybody can use apkg to
>>>> build deb or rpm packages for their distribution), but we also have
>>>> automatic build of packages in Gitlab CI for most mainstream
>>>> distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE), which can be
>>>> downloaded as artifacts [*] for each commit. Thanks to Jakub
>>>> Ruzicka and
>>>> Matous Holinka for some work on this.
>>>>
>>>> It is not as comfortable as fully automated and signed public
>>>> repository,
>>>> but still better than compile it yourself approach :-).
>>>>
>>>> [*] Right side drop menus on
>>>> https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/pipelines
>>>>