Posts Tagged ‘Debian’
Background We build a bunch of stuff for RISC-V using the Dart official Docker image, but the RISC-V images can often arrive some time (days) after the more mainstream images[1]. That means that if we merge a Dependabot PR for an updated image it might well be missing RISC-V, causing the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline […]
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Tags: CD, CI, Dart, Debian, Docker, GitHub Actions, image, manifest, RISC-V, testing
RISC-V Production Ready
TL;DR RISE did it’s job, and in the past couple of years RISC-V support has found its way into stable releases of key infrastructure software like Debian. So from a software perspective, it’s arguable that RISC-V is now ready for production. Progress has been a little slower on the hardware front, but hardware is… hard; […]
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Tags: Alpine, android, cloud, Dart, Debian, GhostWrite, Linux, RISC-V, riscv64, Scaleway, SOC, Trixie, Ubuntu
Python script dependencies
TL;DR ‘–break-system-packages’ sounds scary, but (after some careful evaluation) is likely to be the right way to go for infrastructure automation, at least until uv is ready for production. Python venvs seem to be what we’re expected to use, but introduce additional complexity and associated fragility, which seems to make them a poor choice for […]
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Tags: --break-system-packages, APT, automation, deb, Debian, dependencies, externally-managed-environment, infrastructure, package, PyPI, python, Raspberry Pi, script, system, Ubuntu, uv, venv, virtual environment
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