Fedora 14 on armv5tel status update

[Peter Robinson]

Hi All,

I've been working on getting Fedora 14 moving forward with the
assistance of Dennis.

I've almost got the build root done except for a few notable
exceptions (glibc, python, perl, sqlite, nss I'm looking at you....)
and the things that depend on them.

A lot of the of the failures (python/sqlite/nss) are in the test
suites so they should be relatively easy to fix. I want to try and get
upstream to either fix or disable the offending issue where possible.

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 setup a tracker bug for various issues here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706236

Once I have the last of the buildroot issue cleaned up we'll release
one of the automatic tools onto the dist-f14 packages and see how
quickly we can get F-14 Gold out of the way and move onto the more
interesting things :-D

Cheers,
Peter

[Peter Robinson]

Hi All,
> I've been working on getting Fedora 14 moving forward with the
> assistance of Dennis.
>
> I've almost got the build root done except for a few notable
> exceptions (glibc, python, perl, sqlite, nss I'm looking at you....)
> and the things that depend on them.
>
> A lot of the of the failures (python/sqlite/nss) are in the test
> suites so they should be relatively easy to fix. I want to try and get
> upstream to either fix or disable the offending issue where possible.
>
> 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 setup a tracker bug for various issues here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706236
>
> Once I have the last of the buildroot issue cleaned up we'll release
> one of the automatic tools onto the dist-f14 packages and see how
> quickly we can get F-14 Gold out of the way and move onto the more
> interesting things :-D

Just an update on this, the buildroot is basically done. The two main
outstanding issues on this is glibc [1] and perl [2] and I would love
some help on both of those issues.

I don't think the glibc needs to hold up the running of
build-previous, I'm not sure about perl as I'm not sure if its like
python and is version dependent.

I'm also looking to get a alpha minimal install out there this week
for people to start playing with while we start to get the rest of the
core stuff built.

Peter

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708452
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709107

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Peter Robinson  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

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

[Donald Gullett]

Niels de Vos <devos@...> writes:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Peter Robinson
> <pbrobinson@...> 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
>
> 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?

I have a few sheevaplugs and I am currently running F12 with kernel 2.6.39.1

# uname -a
Linux www 2.6.39.1 #1 PREEMPT Mon Jun 20 08:29:56 EDT 2011 armv5tel armv5tel 
armv5tel GNU/Linux

Sincerly,
Eager and Willing Redhat User :)

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Donald T Gullett <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Niels de Vos <devos@...> writes:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Peter Robinson
> > <pbrobinson@...> 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