Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 15 - ARM v5 and v7 plan of attack
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 21:59 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 00:32 +0200, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> Also, do our hacked rpm & yum versions work for both arch versions
> currently? If not then that should be fixed as soon as possible to allow
> builders to build for both targets. Ideally it would be no more than a
> diferent mock root configuration as is done in the primary arches.
We'll need separate armv5tel and armv7hl builders, otherwise you may
have cross-ABI dynamic linking in scriptlets during mock package
installation. This may not come up often, but since the two abi variants
will link together without error[0] (but with incorrect results), we
need to rule out the possibility.
[0] We really should fix this.
I agree on all fronts - including that we should fix issues. However, I
am a /strong/ believer that Koji builders *MUST* be separate at this
stage. I am willing to accept extremely strong arguments otherwise, but
they'd have to be of the Andrew Wiles variety.
Hardware doesn't appear to be an issue at the moment, and we know of
some greater capability coming to help with v7 building soon (more on
that from Chris and myself later), but I would rather end up having to
ask our guys to fund a few builder boards than try to get v5/v7 joint at
this stage. We'll get there, but not just yet.
Jon.