add support for Fedora secondary arches (ARM, powerpc)

[mozeq]

dgilmore said that it's possible to get the HW which was the main problem why we didn't do it so far

[nirik]

We can possibly get you access to hardware. :)

[mtoman]

I can imagine two scenarios:

1. The ARM machine as a "slave" to retrace01.qa.fedoraproject.org. This would require the ARM machine to be able to NFS mount retrace01.qa.fedoraproject.org and allow HTTP queries in both directions. On the other hand no public HTTP access would be required.

2. The ARM machine as a standalone server. This would require a public HTTPS access with its own hostname (arm.retrace.fedoraproject.org?). The machine would also require a large (500GB+) & fast storage, as it has to install several mock chroots at the same moment as well as maintain its own copy of ARM repositories locally and run createrepo on them periodically (the performance of createrepo on ARM is not ideal).

I personally prefer n° 1, but whatever, we can live with both.

Note: Mentioning ARM as it is the priority ATM, the same applies to other archs.

[nirik]

ok. I will ask our firewall/network admins what we can do here.

On option 1, would that be nfsv3 or nfsv4? (I ask because v4 is easier to deal with port wise), ie, what ports would you need open?

[mtoman]

I'd like to avoid NFSv3 as much as possible, so I guess we agree on NFSv4.

[mtoman]

Any update on this?

[nirik]

Well, we are waiting on a firmware update for our server that will allow us to put this SOC on another uplink (so it's seperate from the others). That firmware is out now, but sadly, we are having problems getting it to apply. ;(
As soon as thats setup, I can setup a instance and we can adjust the firewall rules.
Sorry for the delay.

[nirik]

Sorry for the massive delay here...

I've setup an arm soc at 10.5.78.11 running fedora 20 for your use.

Can you see if you can login via your retrace server and what ports you need open/config? Or catch me on irc and we can work on it realtime.

[mtoman]

We need the following:
arm01 needs to be able to mount NFS running on retrace01 - port 2049
arm01 needs to be able to access postgres running on retrace01 - port 5432
retrace01 needs to be able to access httpd running on arm01 - port 80

[nirik]

I've submitted a networking ticket to get these things opened. ;) Will keep you posted.

[nirik]

ok, those things should be in place now. ;)

Please test and let me know if you need anything further.