[arch-dev-public] Tracking different CPU architectures with pkgstats

[Pierre Schmitz]

Hi, I saw your post; I just did not want to go off-topic right away.
:-) At least as long as I am the only contributor I hesitate to give
up on how the infrastructure is set up. It seems to be much more
complex to do this on "official" servers. I like being able to switch
things around outside of just deploying some scripts. E.g. I do
automatic deployments, updates, change Web server or database
configurations etc..

Greetings,

Pierre

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:42 PM Sven-Hendrik Haase via
arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 15:17, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
> <arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/14/21 3:07 PM, Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> > > I just updated the server to also accept x86_64 feature levels, ARM
> > > and even i686. There is a new version of pkgstats (>= 3.1.0; currently
> > > in [testing]) which is able to detect feature levels. ARM support is
> > > pretty early, but x86_64 should be fine (using Intel's cpuid library).
> > >
> > > If you like to check what gets detected on your system run:
> > >     $ pkgstats submit --dump-json | head
> > > system.architecture is your CPU and os.architecture should be the same
> > > as "uname -m"
> > >
> > > Let me know if this does work for you and especially if it does not.
> > > Using Qemu for testing is quite limited and I lack old, new and AMD
> > > CPUs.
> > >
> > > An API and UI to analyze these data will follow in the future. (I
> > > guess we need to wait a few weeks to see some valid results)
> >
> > Hi Pierre,
> >
> > that sounds wonderful, thanks for the work, this will be nice data points :)
> >
> > Did you see my previous mail? It would be amazing if you can consider
> > growing this side-project into something official in terms of being
> > available on http://pkgstats.archlinux.org/
> >
> > I think this is really a great idea and project that we should advocate
> > in the official hosting namespace :)
> >
> > cheers and thanks,
> > Levente
> >
>
> I second this and we've tried to touch on this in the past. I think
> "officializing" pkgstats would be neat.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven