Re: New List member

[Phil Knirsch]

Hi and welcome Philip!

On 01/28/2010 03:49 AM, Philip Pinto wrote:
>  Hi all -
>
>  I just wanted to say hello and thanks for all of the effort getting this
>  off the ground. I’m sure the work you do here helps out many who use the
>  Redhat Enterprise Linux environment in major corporations for taking a
>  peak at what might be coming in the future releases for RHEL – this
>  platform provides a great environment for learning, testing and
>  development – without any risks production.
>  
Thats greatly appreciated. We've tried to at least provide something 
useful for Fedora now again initially but had to focus quite a bit of 
work back to RHEL lately. This will hopefully change soon as we're 
aiming to get a full secondary arch Fedora 13 up and running for s390x 
again.

>  I was able to install the build system you provided in July and
>  performed the updates to get to what I guess is a pseudo version of FC12
>  – I am assuming that once the installation of the base system at FC11 is
>  complete and new the new RPMS for YUM, RPM and xz libraries then
>  performing a yum update get’s you to base that is s390x-FC12. I am
>  somewhat new to Fedora – I used RHEL 4 and 5 on zSeries for quite a few
>  years so this just might be different with Fedora.
>
>  I just had a couple of questions.
>
>  Is there a plan to provide a DVD ISO of this environment to perform an
>  anaconda type install, using NFS, or HTTP etc similar to RHEL releases?
>  
Not at the moment, no. It's also fairly difficult, and specifically if 
you are using hercules i'm not even sure it's possible. There is a way 
to do install using a HMC on a real IBM z9/z10 with a DVD drive attached 
to it, but from what i recall it bascially only exports the DVD via NFS 
or HTTP to the z9/z10, so from the mainframe side it's still a network 
install.

>  Will there be separate repos in the future to segregate releases –
> not
>  sure if this is a fedora thing or if this happened just because
>  s390x-FC11 was so new and Fedora moves so quickly that this time around
>  things ended up rolling together?
>  
Yes, definitely. The mixed F11/F12 effort was basically a first stab at 
getting s390x back as a supported architecture. Starting with F13 the 
goal is to just follow the normal Fedora release cycle with appropriate 
trees and repos.

>  My test environment that I am using is based on Hercules 3.6+ and I
> have
>  seen no issues with anything using it. The information that this mailing
>  list provides gave me the information needed to get the CTC / networking
>  stuff working properly.
>
>  Nice Job!
>
>  Thanks…
>  
Great to hear that! As soon as we have more information on the status 
for F13 and forward we'll post something here on the list. Probably 
accompanied with a fully updated iamge as well.

Thanks & regards, Phil

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