On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:46:53 -0600
Eric Sandeen <sandeen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
> As for the other points, if we can't provide (and document) the
> ability for developers to test on a secondary arch, that arch
> needs to be removed from Fedora completely. It's useless to
> expect developers to magically fix things they can't debug.
Hm, good point. My initial reaction to all this was "building on other
arches finds good bugs" and I thought back fondly on my e2fsprogs bug
from last week... then I rembered that I, too, have a magic incantation
to invoke a ppc login somewhere and without that I would have been
stumped a lot longer. If most fedora devels can't get access to one of
these boxes, it's a problem, isn't it... :(
It's not a problem at all. David has repeatedly said, on this list, if
you email him a public ssh key he will give you an account on a ppc64
box.
There might be another alternative soon, but it's beyond my control so
I'm not going to elaborate on it.
josh