Upload linux-aarch64 biocontainers to Quay.io

[wjunLu]

Upload linux-aarch64 biocontainers to Quay.io

This repository currently supports the build and distribution of .conda-formatted packages for multiple architectures, including linux-x64 and linux-aarch64.

Nevertheless, it only releases biocontainers for the linux-x64 architecture. With the growing number of developers adopting ARM environments for their work, biocontainers of inux-aarch64 should also be made available on Quay to serve users' needs.

How bioconda/biocomda-recipes release biocontainers currently?

As we can see the bioconda/biocomda-recipes repository only releases linux-x64 biocontainers:

• linux-x64 merge workflow:

bioconda-utils handle-merged-pr recipes config.yml \
            --repo bioconda/bioconda-recipes \
            --git-range ${GITHUB_SHA}~1 ${GITHUB_SHA} \
            --quay-upload-target biocontainers \
            --fallback build \
            --artifact-source github-actions

where --quay-upload-target biocontainers is used for pushing linux-64 biocontainers to quay.io.

• linux-aarch64 merge workflow:

bioconda-utils handle-merged-pr recipes config.yml \
              --repo bioconda/bioconda-recipes \
              --git-range ${CIRCLE_SHA1}~1 ${CIRCLE_SHA1} \
              --fallback build \
              --artifact-source circleci

Since there is no --quay-upload-target used, linux-aarch64 biocontainers will not be pushed.

Previous Works

Over the past few years, our team (e.g. @martin-g , @ZerryNi ) has worked with the community to adapt many software packages for linux-aarch64 format.

Moreover, in build-and-test stage of bioconda/biocomda-recipes CI, we can see that it does build linux-aarch64 biocontainers:

bioconda-utils build recipes config.yml \
                  --lint --docker --mulled-test \
                  --docker-base-image "quay.io/bioconda/bioconda-utils-build-env-cos7-$(arch):${BIOCONDA_UTILS_TAG#v}" \
                  --git-range origin/master HEAD

where --mulled-test is set to build linux-aarch64 biocontainers, and this can be found from circleci artifacts:
(see https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/165751/workflows/85460b3f-0f6b-4ba9-b8bb-9c449b19ec07/jobs/301957?utm_campaign=vcs-integration-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github-checks-link&utm_content=summary&invite=true#step-109-1902_77):

Related PR

bioconda/bioconda-utils#1066

[wjunLu]

Hi @ALL!
Could anyone help see this?