armhf/pypy isn't up to date

[oberstet]

https://hub.docker.com/r/armhf/pypy/ was last updated 7 month ago, while https://hub.docker.com/_/pypy/ was updated days ago

Any plans keeping both in sync, and making armhf "official" too?

[tianon]

The issue with armhf/pypy not staying up to date is that my armhf build box has limited space, so it ends up getting "stuck". I'll go clear it out again and make sure pypy is rebuilt.

As for making them official, the short answer is that yes, we're trying to bring multiarchitecture back into the official images properly. The longer answer is that there are a lot of complex moving parts we have to coordinate to make that happen, so it won't happen overnight, but it is in progress!

See docker-library/official-images#2289 for some of that. 👍

[oberstet]

Thanks for explaining! Looking forward .. hoping for arm64 also long run .. it's becoming a thing too (PyPy itself isn't ready, but in general).

[tianon]

Yeah, gotta convince upstream 😄 (https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads/)

[oberstet]

@tianon yeah, advocating for arm64, from IRC (and I will mention "pypy/arm64 needs funding" every conversations talking to guys with $$ where there is a chance):

<cfbolz> oberstet: out of curiosity, is arm64 going to be relevant for you at some point?
..snip
<oberstet> arm64, yes, I expect that to become a thing in the not too distant future. for now, it is more about armhf in general, and armhf/docker where there seems interest from industrial uesrs ..
<oberstet> cavium thunderx just became avail in germany now .. we are looking at getting a box
<oberstet> https://www.deltacomputer.com/hochleistungs-rechner/standard-server/arm-thunderx.html
<cfbolz> Nice. So at some point we will need a backends for that then 
<oberstet> this would rock!

[vielmetti]

Thanks @oberstet for speaking up for arm64. Packet has a "Type 2A" Cavium ThunderX server which has 96 ARMv8 cores, which makes for a nice build environment, and there's a Terraform provider for it which means you can go from scratch to running and configured machine in about 10 minutes.

[oberstet]

@vielmetti Thanks for the pointer to Packet! I will try that .. just signed up. They actually asked how I got to them .. and they seem to know you;)