[fedora-arm] Introduction and dumb questions

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling at linaro.org> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> On 3 December 2012 22:42, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:29 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling at linaro.org>
>> wrote:
>> > all,
>> >   it's been a while since I've build / been involved with RPM packages,
>> > but
>> > I now have a Samsung ARM chromebook to play with.   I've installed the
>> > various rpm build tools.   Questions
>>
>> Welcome back ;-)
>>
>> >  - do I need to use Koji or this more of a tool for package maintainers
>> > to
>> > build and upload packages etc?
>>
>> No, you don't need to build them with koji, it's primary role is to
>> build the official distro packages although it's possible to use it
>> for scratch builds too. The easiest way to do this locally is to do
>> "yum install fedora-packager gcc" and then run rpmdev-setuptree which
>> will setup a local rpm build env.
>
>
> Great, thanks.
>
>>
>>
>> There's a good overview here
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
>>
>> >  - do the standard Fn source RPMs include support for ARM?
>>
>> Yes. We use 100% upstream mainline Fedora src.rpms, 99% of them even
>> build on ARM ;-)
>>
>> >  - anyone want a package ported to ARM?  I want the Chrome web browser,
>> > but
>> > should probably start with something simpler
>>
>> It might be that the Chromium packages that spot builds for x86 are
>> buildable for ARM, I've not tried to do so though.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium
>
>
> That's what got me looking at building source RPMs.  Looking at ffmpeg*, it
> doesn't build for ARM, various bits are missing, so may start there.

ffmpeg* builds (I've done so in the past) but there are some circular
deps which need hacking about. You won't need to deal with that soon
with rpmfusion for ARM.

>> >  - good informational website on getting going porting packages to ARM?
>>
>> Are you talking of packages that are in mainline Fedora or other third
>> party packages? There is work to get the rpmfusion supporting ARM,
>> this is moving forward and should be more widely available soon.
>
>
> Well, I'd also like Skype and Thunderbird for starters.

Thunderbird is already built and available (I'll look at the F-18
build failure in a minute for TB 17) but I'm sorry you'll need to
speak to Microsoft for the Skype one as it's closed source :-)

Peter