Paul Iadonisi wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:20:43AM -0400, mike@flyn.org wrote:
Is there any plans to add a PowerPC build of Fedora?
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Are there any like-minded folks out there?
Yes. Me. ;-)
Well, not just PowerPC, but also some other non-x86 platforms in general. One request I'd like to make to Red Hat (and any other package maintainers) is to please, please, please, don't make rpms ExclusiveArch unless absolutely necessary. I realize that may already be the case, but I'm just putting my
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Also, will patches for non-x86 (even not [yet] supported) platforms be accepted? I'm guessing that the answer is 'as time permits' which is fine, I would just like to know if it's worth submitting patches at all for Alpha, Arm, (as well as Sparc and PowerPC). Given that Fedora is intended for the hobbyist, developer, enthusiast, I'm hoping that the answer is yes.
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Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(. Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
Cheers, Nicholas
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:33:30PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(. Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
Once the appropriate infrastructure is in place, I don't see why not. Not one of Red Hat's priorities, of course, but that's one of the beautiful things about moving towards enabling community contribution -- Red Hat's priorities are no longer the only consideration.
Again, it will take a while to get the infrastructure in place. It's not even defined yet.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book." Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(. Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
In principle, as a Red Hat person and an Aurora person, I think you're right. In practice, not much is going to happen here until we get a real policy for how to merge changes "upstream" to Fedora, and external access to some build system for it. I suspect this will still take quite some time.
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
In principle, as a Red Hat person and an Aurora person, I think you're right. In practice, not much is going to happen here until we get a real policy for how to merge changes "upstream" to Fedora, and external access to some build system for it. I suspect this will still take quite some time.
Right, we have to walk before we can run. :-)
First priority is external CVS so that we have a place to merge in, before we can so much as start merging in build systems.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book." Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
I finally found some time to build some of severn's SRPMs on my YellowDog iBook. I now have many PPC RPMs built and more on the way. I have no place to put them to share: if anyone wishes to host them, please let me know.
As I mentioned before, I am very interested in contributing to Fedora on PPC. Now that my iBook is starting to run Fedora, I should be able to help. It would be great if the Fedora project aided distributions like YellowDog as they support alternative platforms.
On a related note, is there a way to do a one-command build of a release like severn, similar to OpenBSD's build system? I am currently building in dependency order by hand and I would like to automate things more.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
I finally found some time to build some of severn's SRPMs on my YellowDog iBook. I now have many PPC RPMs built and more on the way. I have no place to put them to share: if anyone wishes to host them, please let me know.
The effort is cool, but unnecessary - ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/ppc/
(Once Rawhide is back, that is.) -- Elliot Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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