[fedora-arm] Fedora 14 on armv5tel status update

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Donald T Gullett <
webwillow at thewebwillow.com> wrote:

> Niels de Vos <devos at ...> writes:
>
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Peter Robinson
> > <pbrobinson at ...> wrote:
> > >> The glibc issue is interesting... it seems its a regression from F-13,
> > >> we had to apply a patch for F-13 but even with all that in place I
> > >> still get some failures. So it seems to be a regression (and we're
> > >> seeing it on the F-15 glibc one as well. I'll do some more testing and
> > >> follow up with the logs etc so that someone more smart than I am might
> > >> be able to comment and assist
> > >>
> > >> All help and feedback welcome :-D
> >
> > I've managed to build the F14 glibc on F13:
> > - https://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=96723
>

All the core OS has been done. We're now looking at the rest of the OS. IE
desktops (gnome/kde/xfce), dev environments (haskell/mono/java etc).


> > If someone finds some time to test, please leave a note in
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708452 or on this list. If
> > there are any issues, I'll try to have a look at them.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Niels
> >
>
>
> I have noticed that forward movement for F14 and or F15 for the armv5tel
> hasnt
> had much attention and that the focus is moving torward the newer boards. I
> would like greatly to be able to provide some help in this area and if some
> one contacted me, I would love to ask many questions and provide hours of
> compile and research time to provide a footfs for F14 and or F15 :)
>
> What Constitutes a F14-F15 build over F12?
> What Packages denotes a fedora build?
> What Design Denotes a fedora build?
>

Exactly the same as an upstream mainline F-14 release. At the moment we're
concentrating on the gold release which packages tagged with dist-f14 as
opposed to updates.


> I have a few sheevaplugs and I am currently running F12 with kernel
> 2.6.39.1
>
>
Have you not tried the F-13 betas on any of them yet?

Peter
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