Hi Dirk, Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2025, 20:20:42 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > Hi Johannes, > > ( And sorry about the fat-finger typo in the earlier email butchering your > name.
No worries! Happens to the best of us - and to me as well :) > I really need to get proof-reading emails before sending... ) > > > On 24 June 2025 at 20:02, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > | On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM Johannes Ranke <johannes.ra...@jrwb.de> wrote: > | > Hey Jeroen, > | > > | > I was recently considering to do this, but did not get around to buy > | > hardware or look for hosting on that architecture. I found a nice offer from my hosting provider. The arm64 backports of R 4.5.1 to Debian 11 (bullseye) and 12 (bookworm) should hit the mirrors at midnight. After my work, I snapshotted the server and deleted it to save resources. I believe I should be able to easily recover it when I get around to do the backports for trixie or the next R release comes up. Cheers, Johannes > | > > | > I just invested in a nice amd64 system, but just for building for CRAN I > | > wont need too many arm64 cyles. > | > > | > Any recommendations on where to look? > | > | GitHub actions has free arm64 and x86_64 runners. If you have the > | build scripts somewhere, we can try to run them on there. I think this > | is also where Dirk builds the arm64 ubuntu binary R packages. > > Yes, I was about to suggest that too but Jeroen beat me to it. I looked > around, and noticed Hetzner has relatively inexpensive machines ... but at > the end of the day it is still your money out of your pocket. > > I started to poke at arm64 when the (free) runner became available for > ubuntu-24.04 (and they since added ubuntu-22.04 too). I actually execute the > build-step in a (custom) Docker container (with added r2u resources) so you > should be able to use the Ubuntu runner to start a Debian container ... and > after that it is like running locally. Only umpteen times slower for > debugging cycles <wink>. I also switched to building the BioC binaries for > amd64 there. > > My (fairly ad-hoc) repo is > https://github.com/eddelbuettel/r2u-arm64-builder > and the action file is > > https://github.com/eddelbuettel/r2u-arm64-builder/blob/main/.github/workflo > ws/arm64.yaml > > I respect a remote invocation reflecting the packages to build in each run, > that will be easier for you as you know what to build. > > Ping me if you have question. Direct DM may be best, you could hop into the > (open) r-contributors slack at r-contributors.slack.com > > Cheers, Dirk _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
