[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Oct 12 17:37:51 UTC 2012


Hi,

Brendan Conoboy <blc at redhat.com> writes:

> On 10/11/2012 03:10 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Just out of interest, which packages are you referring to? I am assuming
>> it is LibreOffice + a small subset of whatever is in Fedora that isn't
>> in EL; mainly because I had no RAM/swap/CPU issues building any the 2000
>> or so packages that overlap. Takes about 3-4 weeks on a _single_
>> SheevaPlug.
>
> You're building 2000 packages, we're building 12000.  Libreoffice is
> definitely one one of the problem packages where an armv7hl builder is
> called for.  The koji server has a special 'heavybuilder' group which
> handles such packages.  Are you using USB storage on your sheevaplug?
> It surprises me that you can get through even 2000 in 3 weeks unless
> half of them are noarch ;-)

Personally I'd be fine if we consider Kirkwood to be "server only"
(i.e. "headless").  So to me that implies that a lack of Libreoffice is
"okay".  Granted, I don't know if that's okay from a Fedora standpoint.

-derek

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