[RFE] Enable to deploy Beaker server / lab-controller on non-x86-64 environment

[StykMartin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At this moment it is not possible to deploy Beaker in environment without x86_64 machines.

Beaker itself is completely noarch product, however, we use dependencies that can be found only on particular architectures. For example syslinux. This package is packaged only to x86-64 RHEL 7.

We should get rid of dependencies like this to enable the user to install Beaker. If dependencies enable simpler onboarding then we should mark them as prerequisites for a given environment (e.g. install syslinux on x86-64).

Describe the solution you'd like I can install Beaker on top of PPC64.

[Honggang-LI]

Beaker itself is completely noarch product, however, we use dependencies that can be found only on particular architectures. For example syslinux. This package is packaged only to x86-64 RHEL 7.

I installed beaker lab controller and client on aarch64 virtual machine. To get rid of syslinux dependency, I built a dummy package in name syslinux to cheat beaker-lab-controller-28.2-1.el7bkr.noarch.

I can provision virtual machines with the aarch64 beaker lab controller. I did not test the beaker server with aarch64 yet.

If only syslinux is your trobule, you may can cheat Beaker as I did.

[desnesn]

A couple of years ago I did try to run/port the beaker server/controller packages on ppc64le and I think that what gave me the most issues on the server was porting selenium? Can't remember ...

Eventually, I just gave up and was able to find a x86_64 server to use.

However, the right way to provide support on other arches would most likely involve also porting the beaker server/controller dependencies.