[Bug 286591] PKG index for ARM64 seams do be out of date

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286591

Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
Looking at https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds?type=package&all=1
with appropriate searches and sorting shows:

142arm64's quarterly started building on
Sat, 10 May 2025 03:10:18 GMT and still
has 6716 to go, having built 28212 so far
in 141:14:58 . The prior analogous, but
much smaller (incemental) build,
was for 141arm64 and started on
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:35:24 GMT taking
50:28:17 .


One issue is that as of pkg 2.1.0+ being
involved, the (nearly) from-scratch builds 
take somewhat longer compared to when pkg
2.0.6 or before was involved. The
arm64/armv7 systems (ampere*) are not
the faster systems.

Another is that ampere1 cycles through
building 4 distinct build types (arm64/armv7
combined with 14.2/13.4), unlike amd64
systems that build just one type each and
the next build is of the same type. (There
are far more amd64/i386 systems.)

A result of both of the above is that a
build cycle of the 4 builds can take much
of a month to complete and start the next
cycle, at least when the cycle has large
numbers of build to do for each type.
No so long when they happen to be small
incremental builds instead. (Quarterly
gets such smaller builds far more often.)

Another issue is that ampere1 has been
crashing a lot in recent times. (Cause
unknown as far as I know.) There were 4
crashes in April and 1 sigterm so far in
May. The crashes insert delays.

Do not expect arm64 and amd64 to be
synchronized. If the 6716 finish without
a crash, there should finally be a 142arm64
quarterly update, one that would include
pkg 2.1.2 .

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