[fedora-arm] Fedora 15 - ARM v5 and v7 plan of attack

Brendan Conoboy blc at redhat.com
Wed Sep 21 22:26:04 UTC 2011


On 09/21/2011 01:59 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
>> We will hold a review session tomorrow (Thursday September 22) on IRC
>> that will be announced as a VFAD.[snip]
> At what time?

Per Chris Tyler's recent email ("[fedora-arm] Triage for Remaining 
armv7hl Packages"):

When: Sep 22 2011, 1600 UTC (1200 EDT)
Where: irc.freenode.net:#fedora-arm

> Would really be nice if these things gets planned a couple of days
> ahead.

Agree...

As you and others have pointed out, many of the build failures are now 
in need of manual intervention.  That makes this subject a good 
recurring VFAD topic so lets discuss making this a regular event if the 
time generally works for those who want to participate.

>> TARGET: October 14th or sooner for remaining packages/ready for Koji.
>
> That's 3 weeks away. At current investment level in solving build issues
> that's a way optimistic date imho. But obviously depends on what the
> target functionality level is.

The goal would be to get it up to par with the ARMv7 rather than be 
complete finished.  Given sufficient builders this should be achievable 
as the path has been paved with the work done for ARMv7.

> The simple brute-force model is not really suitable for this as-is. If
> you use this then two full rounds will be needed (f14->stage4,
> stage4->stage4.1), and a fair bit of manual actions inbetween to solve
> package mismatches. At least if you want a reasonably smooth koji run or
> any form of reproducible quality level on the packages that comes out of
> koji.

Yes, hopefully there will be ordered builds...

> phone is not really an option for me, and also very poor medium for
> making any form of decisions or working over any forms or task lists or
> even keeping correct notes of what was said.
>
> normal Fedora meetings is #fedora-meeting.

It looks like Chris suggested using #fedora-arm rather than a phone, If 
some people prefer to use the phone we can provide a bridge.

I am currently rsyncing the F15 updates SRPM repository to 
arm-temp.ausil.us.  Once it's done we can copy select packages from this 
directory into the build queue to give the ARMv7 builders something to 
work on.  Lets start with FTBFS (excluding dependency failures) and see 
how far we can get that way.

-- 
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com


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