status of patches for rawhide

[Lennert Buytenhek]

I went through most of our FC6 patches, and for each of them, checked
whether they would still be needed in rawhide, re-based them, and
submitted them to the upstream project (for non-packaging related
patches) and/or to RH bugzilla.

All RH BZs have been linked to the ARM tracker bug, which is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245418

The following patches are no longer needed for current rawhide:
    NetworkManager-0.6.4-5.fc6
    apr-1.2.7-10
    cdrtools-2.01-10
    compat-db-4.2.52-5.1
    kdesdk-3.5.6-0.1.fc6
    libdrm-2.3.0-1.fc6
    libgcrypt-1.2.3-1
    liboil-0.3.8-2.1
    mesa-6.5.1-9.fc6
    w3m-0.5.1-15.fc6
    xorg-x11-drivers-7.1-3
    xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.1.0-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.0.1-2
    xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1.fc6
    xorg-x11-drv-calcomp-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.1.0-2.fc6
    xorg-x11-drv-citron-2.2.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-digitaledge-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-dmc-1.1.0-2
    xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.2.0-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-dynapro-1.1.0-2
    xorg-x11-drv-elo2300-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.1.2-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.3.0-2
    xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.1.1-4.1
    xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.1.0-2
    xorg-x11-drv-jamstudio-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-joystick-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-magellan-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-magictouch-1.0.0.5-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.5-2.fc6
    xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.2.1-1.fc6
    xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.1.0-2
    xorg-x11-drv-nv-1.2.0-4.fc6
    xorg-x11-drv-palmax-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.1.0-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-spaceorb-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-summa-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.3.0-2.fc6
    xorg-x11-drv-tseng-1.1.0-3.1
    xorg-x11-drv-ur98-1.1.0-1.1
    xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.2.1-4
    xorg-x11-drv-vga-4.1.0-2.1
    xorg-x11-drv-void-1.1.0-3.1
    xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.1.0-3.1
    xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-9.fc6

These patches were rebased, submitted to bugzilla, and merged:
    redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-9.fc6		#243523

These patches were merged without bugzilla entry:
    anaconda-11.1.1.3-1			applied
    xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-47.8.fc6		applied
    yum-3.0.6-1.fc6				applied

These patches were rebased, submitted to bugzilla, and have not
yet been merged:
    SDL-1.2.11-1.fc6			#245411
    attr-2.4.32-1.1				#245415
    authd-1.4.3-9				#245436
    binutils-2.17.50.0.6-2.fc6		#243516
    db4-4.3.29-9.fc6			#245416
    gmp-4.1.4-9.fc6				#245456
    g-wrap-1.9.6-7.1			#245461
    openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.fc6			#245417
    pcmciautils-014-5			#245441
    pm-utils-0.19-3				#245463
    smartmontools-5.37-1.1.fc6		#245442
    star-1.5a75-1				#245465
    subversion-1.4.3-2.fc6			#245467

These patches have been rebased and submitted upstream (or had
previously been submitted upstream), applied upstream, and will
be automatically picked up when the corresponding Fedora package
will be rebased to a newer upstream version:
    e2fsprogs-1.39-7.fc6		http://thunk.org/hg/e2fsprogs/?rev/d22a0a6fcd7e
    ekiga-2.0.5-3.fc6		http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-devel-list/2007-June/msg00024.html
    rpm-4.4.2-33.fc6		https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-maint/2007-June/000400.html

These patches have been submitted upstream but are not merged yet:
    util-linux-2.13-0.46.fc6

These patches disable java/mono bindings (as we don't have gcj nor
mono at this time.)  I'm not sure what to do with them.
    avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6		disable mono bindings
    gettext-0.14.6-4.fc6		disable java bindings
    subversion-1.4.3-2.fc6		disable java build
    vnc-4.1.2-9.fc6			disable .jar build

These patches fix real issues, and have been submitted to their
respective upstream projects, but as they don't fix all the issues
that we see on the ARM platform, I haven't BZ'ed them yet:
    firefox-1.5.0.10-5.fc6		firefox still goes into 100% CPU loop
    nspr-4.6.6-0.6.0.fc6		https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385583

There's about a dozen patches left that I'm hoping to be able to
get rid of in the next couple of days.

[Manas Saksena]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> I went through most of our FC6 patches, and for each of them, checked
> whether they would still be needed in rawhide, re-based them, and
> submitted them to the upstream project (for non-packaging related
> patches) and/or to RH bugzilla.

That's awesome. I think we need to begin our integration with Koji
build system -- the sooner the better. It is still early in the F8
release cycle, and so I would like for us to get things done before the 
release pressure starts hitting everyone.

So, the question is -- what does it take to do this integration. My 
(limited) understanding is:

1. There were some changes being made to Koji to support secondary
    architectures and bootstrapping. I have cc'ed Denis and Prarit,
    who, as I understand, were working on it.

2. I think it would be useful to have a branch in CVS to (hopefully
    temporarily) hold our patches, so that we can build in Koji. Is it
    possible to get that done and provide CVS access to Lennert? Are
    there any issues with that?

3. What access is needed for us to do the builds under Koji?

Anything else?

Thanks
Manas