Cellular Network Infrastructure

osmith wrote:

Based on the stats above, I think it makes sense to remove:

• Raspbian 10 and 11 (barely used and debian aarch64 packages can be used instead for newer Pis)
• openSUSE 15.4, keeping only Tumbleweed (we did not have the latest version 15.5 enabled)

Harald, does this look good? If so, I'd write an announcement that we remove these in 2 months and then remove them.

laforge wrote in #note-3:

Agreeing in general, but:

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:48:33PM +0000, osmith wrote:

Based on the stats above, I think it makes sense to remove:

• Raspbian 10 and 11 (barely used and debian aarch64 packages can be used instead for newer Pis)

I would prefer to keep them for armv7l, while abandoning them for aarch64 if we properly document this
so the average user understands how they can use the feeds on aarc64.

Latest_Builds and Nightly_Builds now explain that Raspberry Pi OS users with aarch64 should use the Debian feeds.

I've noticed that openSUSE's OBS also only uses packages from archive.raspbian.org for armv7l, the aarch64 builds of Raspbian use debian feeds.

• https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Raspbian:12 (this was actually broken, explained the problem in #opensuse-buildservice IRC channel and now it is fixed)
• https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Raspbian:11
• https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Raspbian:10

laforge: I propose the following news entry, is it fine if I post it?

Title: Binary packages: changes in supported distributions

The official Osmocom [[binary packages]] will not be built anymore for
the following distributions starting at 2024-02:

* Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit (use Debian_12 etc. instead)
* Ubuntu 23.04 (Ubuntu 23.10 and LTS 20.04/22.04 feeds are available)
* openSUSE 15.4 (openSUSE Tumbleweed feed is available)
* Debian Testing (Debian Unstable and 12-10 feeds are available)

For Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit users, make sure to adjust your
<code>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</code> as
"described here":https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Latest_Builds
to switch to a Debian aarch64 feed.

See the new "linux distributions":https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Linux_Distributions
article for information on how long we plan to keep building packages for each
distribution.

Additionally I've added Ubuntu 23.10 and Raspberry Pi OS 12 (32 bit), and created a jenkins job that checks whether new Debian, Raspbian or Ubuntu versions have been added to the openSUSE OBS that we don't have yet in our OBS. It fails if that is the case, and so we should be able to consistently add the new versions (and drop e.g. old EOL Ubuntu releases) shortly after they are available in openSUSE OBS:
https://gerrit.osmocom.org/q/topic:update-obs-distros

When the jenkins job fails, it points to this new article describing how to add the new release:
https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Add_a_new_distribution_to_OBS