Re: Let's include powerpc64le-linux in the next release

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Chris,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

> How shall we build the binary tarball for the release?  Of course,
> anybody with a copy of the (source) release tarball can build their own
> guix binary by invoking "make guix-binary.powerpc64le-linux.tar.xz"
> themselves.  However, for convenience, it would be nice to provide a
> pre-built binary if possible.  Shall I build this myself when the time
> comes, or would people prefer to do it a different way?

Like Efraim wrote, the person who makes the release (I’m afraid it’ll be
me) needs to be able to offload to a “trustworthy” machine for that
platform.

If we can do that, we should adjust the ‘release’ target in
‘Makefile.am’ to do that.

However, since we won’t be providing substitutes, we should label it as
“technology preview” in the manual (info "(guix) GNU Distribution").

How does that sound?

Ludo’.