ovn-octavia-provider tests fail on 32 bits arch

[Thomas Goirand]

Hi,

The ovn-octavia-provider package cannot migrate from Debian to Unstable because its autopkgtest (which runs the package unit tests in the Debian CI) are failing on all 32 bits arch. Please have a look to this page:

https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=ovn-octavia-provider

Please fix the unit tests, and let me know where to find the patch (zigo on IRC).

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

[Rodolfo Alonso (rodolfo-alonso-hernandez)]

The issue seems to be in the core OVN version installed. There is a "maxInteger": -1 parameter set in the OVN NB schema definition. What is the OVN version installed in this CI?

[Rodolfo Alonso (rodolfo-alonso-hernandez)]

Actually no, this is not an issue in the OVN code but a lack of support of 32 bits OS. Some "maxInteger" parameters have value 4294967295. In a 32bit singed integer, this is -1 [2]. That means the problem is not in "ovn-octavia-provider" itself but in the lack of support of core OVN of 32 bits OS.

[1]https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/branch-23.03/ovn-nb.ovsschema#L274
[2]https://www.simonv.fr/TypesConvert/?integers

[Thomas Goirand (thomas-goirand)]

FYI, I've added Build-Depends: architecture-is-64-bit in the OVN package, and asked for 32 bits arch removal from Debian. This bug can be therefore closed, knowing that we're not making any effort to retain 32 bits compat.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand