[fedora-arm] Introduction and dumb questions

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:10 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling at linaro.org> wrote:
> 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...

Yes, although I'm not sure what the latest built version is. I need to
fix a kernel problem to ublock some builds. I think TB 16 is there,
you should just be able to do "yum install thunderbird"

Of the 12K source packages, a lot more binary, in F17+ we're only
missing around 300 in total so if it's in mainline Fedora and it's not
x86 specific or some of the more strange packges (ada, D, fpc and a
few others) it'll likely just be a "yum install" away. Testing and
feedback of everything and anything gladly welcomed... both good and
bad :)

Peter

> Dave
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> 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
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> David A Rusling
> CTO, Linaro