Cannot build on an aarch64 host

[billatarm]

Describe the bug
I have tried following the documentation to build VHD, VHDX and ISO images, and have yet to get anything to work.
I am using this as the documentation source: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/blob/3.0/toolkit/docs/quick_start/quickstart.md

It appears that something with the RPM fetch is failing, AFAICT:

WARN[0022][imagepkgfetcher] Failed to clone packages in a single transaction, will retry with individual transactions... (retry cancelled, last error:
exit status 243) 
WARN[0022][imagepkgfetcher]     Check log file '/home/wilrob02/workspace/azurelinux/build/logs/imggen/imagepkgfetcher.log' for more details from package manager. 
ERRO[0046][imagepkgfetcher] Also failed to clone packages with individual transactions. Error: retry cancelled, last error:
exit status 243 
ERRO[0046][imagepkgfetcher]     Check log file '/home/wilrob02/workspace/azurelinux/build/logs/imggen/imagepkgfetcher.log' for more details from package manager. 
PANI[0046][imagepkgfetcher] Failed to clone RPM repo. Error: retry cancelled, last error:

The log file has this:

time="2024-12-04T13:37:05-06:00" level=debug msg="shim package not found or not installed"
time="2024-12-04T13:37:05-06:00" level=debug msg="Error(1011) : No matching packages"

Am I missing some build dependency here? Do I have to build on Ubuntu?

To Reproduce

• Fedora 42 (I have also tried f40 and f41)
• AArch64 Host
• run command from toolkit directory:
  • sudo make image -j8 REBUILD_TOOLS=y REBUILD_PACKAGES=n CONFIG_FILE=./imageconfigs/core-efi.json 2>&1 | tee logz
  • sudo make image -j8 REBUILD_TOOLS=y REBUILD_PACKAGES=n CONFIG_FILE=./imageconfigs/core-legacy.json
  • sudo make iso -j8 REBUILD_TOOLS=y REBUILD_PACKAGES=n CONFIG_FILE=./imageconfigs/full.json

Expected behavior
A successful build

[zcobol]

@billatarm you are building a x86_64 image on an aarch64 host. I did a build of imageconfigs/core-efi-aarch64.json on a rpi4 running f41 using 3.0-stable branch and it worked w/out errors.

End of build console output:

---cut---
INFO[0000][roast] Converting (1) artifacts
WARN[0208][roast] Skipping move. Source and destination are the same file (/home/zcobol/azurelinux/out/images/core-efi-aarch64/core-3.0.20241205.2353.vhdx).
INFO[0208][roast] [1/1] Converted (/home/zcobol/azurelinux/build/imagegen/core-efi-aarch64/imager_output/disk0.raw) -> (/home/zcobol/azurelinux/out/images/core-efi-aarch64/core-3.0.20241205.2353.vhdx)

Command used for testing:

sudo make image -j2 REBUILD_TOOLS=y REBUILD_PACKAGES=n CONFIG_FILE=./imageconfigs/core-efi-aarch64.json

Host info:

     Static hostname: raspi
           Icon name: computer-desktop
             Chassis: desktop 🖥️
          Machine ID: bce81e82720c42719356e4d033c0b970
             Boot ID: 460f23db95e74ddb814827bb4150ad07
    Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 (Server Edition)
         CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41
      OS Support End: Tue 2025-05-13
OS Support Remaining: 5month 5d
              Kernel: Linux 6.11.4-301.fc41.aarch64
        Architecture: arm64
     Hardware Vendor: raspberrypi
      Hardware Model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2
    Firmware Version: 2024.10
       Firmware Date: Tue 2024-10-01
        Firmware Age: 2month 5d

[billatarm]

Ok, so this is a documentation issue, we need to update the documentation to cover both x86-64 and AArch64. I like that x86-64 arch specific config files don't have an arch suffix. Is there a hosted bootable ISO image for aarch64 like their is mentioned for x86-64?

[reubeno]

@billatarm Good timing for that question! The main README's ISO section was just updated today with a link to a bootable 3.0 aarch64 ISO.