[QUESTION] what is your suggested source for a qemu-user-static version that works with UBI9 ppc64le

[jmontleon]

Question

In the Manifest Push example qemu-user-static is installed using apt, and it appears quite old.
https://github.com/redhat-actions/push-to-registry/blob/main/.github/workflows/manifest-build-push.yaml#L39

WIth ppc64le it errors, at least with a UBI 9 container.

Fatal glibc error: CPU lacks float128 support (POWER 9 or later required)
error building at STEP "RUN make docker": error while running runtime: exit status 127
time="2023-02-01T18:30:27Z" level=error msg="exit status 127"

This looks to be an old issue with qemu.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg03526.html

I ended up using the docker setup-qemu-action action to install a newer qemu-user-static and it works fine. My questions is whether you have an alternate solution for getting a newer qemu-user-static and whether it's worth updating the example in either case.

The only other thing that caught me off guard was using ./ for the push step.
https://github.com/redhat-actions/push-to-registry/blob/main/.github/workflows/manifest-build-push.yaml#L64

Aside from those it wored great, than you!

[TiloGit]

Hi, @jmontleon I think your question might be better suited for: buildah-build

here example to build: https://github.com/redhat-actions/buildah-build/blob/main/.github/workflows/multiarch.yml

Also my understanding is that the installed 'qemu-user-static' would depend on the action runner version of Ubuntu and the corresponding repo:

24.04 seems to have qemu 8.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/+package/qemu-user-static
22.0.4 seems to have qemu 6.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+package/qemu-user-static