Hello everyone,
the work on Fedora/s390x is a never-ending story, so I would like to give you a status update where we stand after the primary Fedora has released beta of F-15.
Regarding packages we are in a bit better shape we were in F-14, but the process of fixing the package (or excluding them from s390x) is not as fast as we would wish and always a new breakages appear in packages whose previous versions were built successfully.
We have installation images that should match the content of the beta release in primary Fedora, but some issues during and after the installation that block further testing (some can be workarounded) were discovered and documented (thanks goes to Jan Stodola from RHEL release testing team).
here is the list of opened bugzillas: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696997 (dracut, blocker, fixed) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696164 (anaconda) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694518 (lorax, fixed) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694499 (anaconda) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693764 (anaconda) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641986 (NetworkManager, affects Hercules users) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619005 (anaconda)
and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467765 is the tracker bug
The plan is to build 400+ packages that were updated in primary Fedora during the beta freeze and prepare new images that will contain fixes for (some of) the bugs above. When there are no big usability limitations they will be uploaded to secondary.fp.o for public testing.
Dan