RPM for PPC64 architecture

[Hydrocephalic]

I've been attempting to install the agent on a ppc64 architecture, following the instructions for RedHat on the LogDNA website:

[root@server ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/logdna.repo
[logdna]
baseurl = https://repo.logdna.com/el6/
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = https://repo.logdna.com/logdna.gpg
name = LogDNA repo

# yum install logdna-agent
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager, versionlock
No package logdna-agent available.
Error: Nothing to do

[root@server ~]# yum repolist |grep logdna
logdna                                   LogDNA repo                         0+8

CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5:GA:server
Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-862.25.3.el7.ppc64le
Architecture: ppc64-le

It seems to me LogDNA agent has no package for ppc64 architecture.

Would it be possible to publish the PPC64 RPM on the repo?

[Hydrocephalic]

Do you have any update on this?

[wscanlan]

Hello do you have an update on ppc64 support?
The documentation does not reflect only x86 is supported but It appears only x86 rpm are shipped.

[jsumners]

At this time we don’t support PPC64 architecture and don’t have immediate plans on the roadmap for such support.

[bogdansavu]

Hello , there is any way to get the source code to allow us to compile the agent on ppc64le platform?

[dkhokhlov]

This is old agent. New generation agent based on Rust is located here:

https://github.com/logdna/logdna-agent-v2

Some porting effort will be needed similar to arm64 that was already done.

$ rustup target list | grep powerpc64le
powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu

Porting scope is outlined here:
logdna/logdna-agent-v2#405 (comment)

[bogdansavu]

@dkhokhlov the porting scope is for s390 that is a different platform.
We will need to use the ppc64le Agent to allow us to Integrate PowerVS VMs with LogDNA.
Please let me know what we can do to allow us to compile this agent.

[c-nixon]

Porting the rust agent to ppc will either require much the same work as porting to s390x or perhaps some creative dependency patching to tell cargo to use IBM's ring fork however I have no idea how maintained that fork is

[bogdansavu]

When I'm trying to build the agent I'm getting this error:
error: failed to run custom build command for ring v0.16.20
I see the latest IBM's ring fork latest version is 0.16.20. How we can create a dependency patching?

[c-nixon]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/overriding-dependencies.html

[bogdansavu]

I tried using:
[patch.crates-io]
ring = { git = "https://github.com/ibm/ring.git", branch = "ppc-0.16.20" }

but I'm getting this error:
error[E0599]: no method named description_ found for struct KeyRejected in the current scope
--> /root/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/rcgen-0.9.3/src/lib.rs:1624:35
|
1624 | RcgenError::RingKeyRejected(err.description_())
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ method not found in KeyRejected

For more information about this error, try rustc --explain E0599.
error: could not compile rcgen (lib) due to previous error
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

Any suggestion? It is something that I can fix?

[dkhokhlov]

it will be better to move this issue to https://github.com/logdna/logdna-agent-v2.
Just create new issue and refer to this one at the beginning.

this repo is old agent - NodeJS based.

[bogdansavu]

I opened this issue logdna/logdna-agent-v2#540.