Add support for hosting ceph-boost's RISCV deb package

[ffgan]

When running install-deps.sh on a Debian system, Ceph relies on ceph-boost. However, ceph-boost currently does not support the RISCV architecture, preventing the install-deps.sh from executing.

I packaged and tested ceph-boost on RISCV using a GitHub action link. The packaged deb also works properly and can be run through install-deps.sh. Therefore, we are considering adding support for hosting ceph-boost's RISCV deb on chacra.ceph.com.

You can see all the build, test, and packaging scripts in the yml file of my github action, link

Feel free to contact me, I'd be happy to provide more information

[dmick]

At the risk of stating the obvious, adding a new architecture to Ceph is going to require a lot more work than just this small aspect of package storage/repo building. Thanks for the work but it's a mighty big hill. It may be that for the time being it would be better to host this build somewhere else; we have random "prebuilt dependencies" hosted on download.ceph.com

[ffgan]

Yes, adding support for new architectures to Ceph is quite a hassle. However, this isn't the place to discuss RISC-V support in Ceph; for details, see link.

For ceph-boost only, adding support for RISC-V via managed deb packages shouldn't be a major issue. If any problem, please let me know and I'll do my best to address them.

[ffgan]

I built ceph-libboos on both ubuntu22 and ubuntu24. See link.