Re: Uploading rocm 6.4.X in sid

[Christian BAYLE <bayle@debian.org>]

Hello,

Le 28/09/2025 à 17:40, Christian Kastner a écrit :
> On 2025-09-28 17:00, Christian BAYLE wrote:
> > Would it help, if for example
> > I start to upload built on unstable rocm-llvm (just tested that it
> > builds) to apt.ai.debian.net ?
> >
> > I think at least it would allow to test transitions, not waiting too
> > much for NEW queue
> > That would also allow me to work a bit more on the meta rocm-* packages
> Hm, that could be a good idea. sbuild, autopkgtest, debci all support
> working with arbitrary APT repositories. And at first glance, I may have
> been wrong, our scheduler should also be able to include them in scheduling.
>
> I think we would need to add pseudo-distribution, like unstable-rocm, so
> that tools don't run into conflicts.
I'm afraid that it would make things more complex, because many tools 
could have few hardcoded test based on 'unstable' keywords, but maybe 
I'm wrong.

> Alternatively, someone could also take over the apt.rocm.debian.net
> archive. As I mentioned, I can send that person the Yubikey with the
> signing keys. Or the signing keys get replaced by software keys, but
> that would be someone else's responsibility.
>
Not sure, it's worth to keep to many infra, reprepro is quite an 
interesting piece of software for someone who wants to learn things 
about repositories, compared to the much more complex dak.

In the past I worked on this [1] which allow kind of gitlab PPA [2]
As far as I understood Debusine is also making some work on this

The main problem with rocm package is that it's relatively ressources 
consuming, and takes too long to build with traditional CI/CD and 
apt.ai.debian.net i think will be convenient for more automation. (many 
thanks to provide it :-)

Regards

Christian

[1] https://gitlab.com/Orange-OpenSource/gitlab-buildpkg-tools
[2] http://orange-opensource.gitlab.io/gitlab-buildpkg-tools/