Peter,<div> is thunderbird available for F17? Thanks for the tips, I've built jsoncpp, so I have a valid build environment to start with at least. Time for bed now...</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 December 2012 22:53, Peter Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David Rusling <<a href="mailto:david.rusling@linaro.org">david.rusling@linaro.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Peter,<br>
><br>
> On 3 December 2012 22:42, Peter Robinson <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi David,<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:29 PM, David Rusling <<a href="mailto:david.rusling@linaro.org">david.rusling@linaro.org</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > all,<br>
>> > it's been a while since I've build / been involved with RPM packages,<br>
>> > but<br>
>> > I now have a Samsung ARM chromebook to play with. I've installed the<br>
>> > various rpm build tools. Questions<br>
>><br>
>> Welcome back ;-)<br>
>><br>
>> > - do I need to use Koji or this more of a tool for package maintainers<br>
>> > to<br>
>> > build and upload packages etc?<br>
>><br>
>> No, you don't need to build them with koji, it's primary role is to<br>
>> build the official distro packages although it's possible to use it<br>
>> for scratch builds too. The easiest way to do this locally is to do<br>
>> "yum install fedora-packager gcc" and then run rpmdev-setuptree which<br>
>> will setup a local rpm build env.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Great, thanks.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> There's a good overview here<br>
>> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package</a><br>
>><br>
>> > - do the standard Fn source RPMs include support for ARM?<br>
>><br>
>> Yes. We use 100% upstream mainline Fedora src.rpms, 99% of them even<br>
>> build on ARM ;-)<br>
>><br>
>> > - anyone want a package ported to ARM? I want the Chrome web browser,<br>
>> > but<br>
>> > should probably start with something simpler<br>
>><br>
>> It might be that the Chromium packages that spot builds for x86 are<br>
>> buildable for ARM, I've not tried to do so though.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> That's what got me looking at building source RPMs. Looking at ffmpeg*, it<br>
> doesn't build for ARM, various bits are missing, so may start there.<br>
<br>
</div></div>ffmpeg* builds (I've done so in the past) but there are some circular<br>
deps which need hacking about. You won't need to deal with that soon<br>
with rpmfusion for ARM.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> > - good informational website on getting going porting packages to ARM?<br>
>><br>
>> Are you talking of packages that are in mainline Fedora or other third<br>
>> party packages? There is work to get the rpmfusion supporting ARM,<br>
>> this is moving forward and should be more widely available soon.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Well, I'd also like Skype and Thunderbird for starters.<br>
<br>
</div>Thunderbird is already built and available (I'll look at the F-18<br>
build failure in a minute for TB 17) but I'm sorry you'll need to<br>
speak to Microsoft for the Skype one as it's closed source :-)<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Peter<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>David A Rusling<br>CTO, Linaro<br>
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