Question of IBM PowerPC support

[Maynard Johnson]

Hello EPEL community,
I'm considering going through the steps of getting a Fedora package I maintain 
into EPEL.  This package is currently very arch-specific as it's used for 
collecting instruction trace data to feed into a timer accurate simulator.  The 
architecture in question is IBM PowerPC.  Since Fedora has demoted ppc/ppc64 
from being a primary arch (starting with F13), I'm wondering what effect (if 
any) that decision has on ppc/ppc64 packages in EPEL.  I will want to target 
this package to RHEL 5 and (when available) RHEL 6.  Are there any problems or 
issues I should know about?

Thanks.

-Maynard Johnson

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/20/2009 01:59 AM, Maynard Johnson wrote:
>  Hello EPEL community,
>  I'm considering going through the steps of getting a Fedora package I
>  maintain into EPEL.  This package is currently very arch-specific as
>  it's used for collecting instruction trace data to feed into a timer
>  accurate simulator.  The architecture in question is IBM PowerPC.  Since
>  Fedora has demoted ppc/ppc64 from being a primary arch (starting with
>  F13), I'm wondering what effect (if any) that decision has on ppc/ppc64
>  packages in EPEL.  I will want to target this package to RHEL 5 and
>  (when available) RHEL 6.  Are there any problems or issues I should know
>  about? 
None afaik. What EPEL supports is different from what Fedora supports.

Rahul