[fedora-arm] Working on Fedora-arm "port" for Allwinner A10 based devices

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Brendan Conoboy <blc at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/2012 02:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>>
>> My work is based on:
>> -f18arm-latest-armhfp-xfce.tar.xz
>
>
> This is probably the source of your /var/run vs /run problem.  The
> f18arm-latest tarball is based on a series of yum upgrades from f17, meaning
> there was plenty of room for things to go wrong with the /usr move.  I'd
> suggest working from the latest F18 Versatile Express image instead- pull
> the rootfs out of it as a foundation.
>
> For these "latest" builds I'll be dumping the old scripts and starting over
> properly with David Marlin's kickstarts and lorax work.  It should produce
> more reliable builds and provide a better foundation. Meanwhile, go with the
> TC3 image we're doing a VFAD on today:
>
> http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/vault/f18-beta-tc3/F18-vexpress-xfce-20121218.tar.xz
>
> Very cool that you're doing this BTW!

I tend to use either the tegra (doesn't need a vfat partition) or the
omap (does have a vfat) over the vexpress images simply because they
use uboot too so have provisions for it where as the vexpress doesn't.

Peter