[fedora-arm] What is the best way to fix build issues with Fedora 13 RPMs?

[Gordan Bobic]

Niels de Vos wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> it looks like not all Fedora 13 packages can be build on ARM yet. For
> some packages there have been tickets opened at the Trac instance:
> - https://fedorahosted.org/arm/report/1
> 
> I'd like to help out with building these packages, but am not a
> 'proven packager' [1], so I can not fix the issues completely and rely
> on the package maintainer or other proven packagers. What I am doing
> right now is filing bugs against the packages that can not be build on
> ARM. I'm including pointers to the issue and propose fixes, like:
> - Bug 682515 - libgda-4.1.4-1.fc13.src.rpm does not rebuild on Fedora 13 for ARM
> - Bug 682538 - geos-3.2.1-1.fc13.src.rpm does not build on Fedora-13 for ARM
> 
> These bugs are blockers for the ARMTracker which make them easily findable:
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=245418&hide_resolved=1

We're tracking build failures as bugs now? Really??

If build failures are now tracked as bugs, OpenOffice/LibreOffice would 
probably be an important one to address sooner rather than later. I have 
3.3.0.4 from rawhide _almost_ building when configured without the Java 
bits, but it fails in the packaging stage, erroneously trying to extract 
non-existant beanshell components. Without OO/LO, we haven't got a 
usable office package on ARM, which is a bit of an issue. And since 
Ubuntu have it working, we really ought to be keeping up.

The main thing that's stopping me from making progress on this at a 
sensible rate is that OO/LO takes 3 or so days to build on my Sheevaplug.

Gordan