[fedora-arm] Introduction and dumb questions

[David Rusling]

Peter,
  is thunderbird available for F17?   Thanks for the tips, I've built
jsoncpp, so I have a valid build environment to start with at least.   Time
for bed now...

Dave


On 3 December 2012 22:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
David A Rusling
CTO, Linaro
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