[fedora-arm] F17 snapshot images

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Brendan Conoboy <blc at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 05:35 PM, "Andy Green (林安廸)" wrote:
>>
>> It's great that you're doing this, but I don't think dding partition +
>> filesystems is a good idea.
>
>
> It's definitely tricky to get right.  The number of possible configurations
> makes it tricky to do an efficient selection of images. I may end up doing a
> combination tegra+omap+etc image to cut down the waste.
>
>
>> We found that various "8GB" SD cards have different absolute numbers of
>> available sectors, it can lead to eventual filesystem corruption if your
>> image is slightly large than someone else's card.
>
>
> Well, the image is being created out of a sparse file with 8000 1048576 byte
> sectors.  If that proves too many it would be little trouble to drop it down
> to 7900 or something.  We'll see how it goes in practice.
>
>
>> If someone's going to try this they're probably OK running fdisk and
>> using tarballs.
>
>
> Yeah, the uboot enabled kernel tarball will probably be the most universally
> useful. I personally had plenty of trouble marking working uboot files so
> leveraging David Marlin's work on grubby will hopefully spare others that
> trouble.  Meanwhile, a number of people have asked for images they can dd,
> so I'm trying to fulfill both needs.
>
>
>> I've been using Peter's F17 alpha1 image and following progress with
>> updates, it's been very good.  It's stuck as of last week with
>> gnome-shell problems though.  But generally package completeness has
>> been increasing really well last few weeks, great job.
>
>
> What are the gnome-shell problems?  Perhaps they're well known but I'm not
> acquainted with them.  If we're missing a package that will help things out
> let me know and I'll put it in the next snapshot.

It'll be dep issues, I'm awaiting the reopening of mainline so we'll
get updates.

Peter