[fedora-arm] To get closer to the ARM team…

[Kévin Raymond]

>> I am organizing a Fedora 17 Release Party Sat 2nd of June, and I plan
>> to give a Fedora ARM talk…
>> As I've now a dreamplug and a XO 1.75, I plan to install Fedora on them.
>
> The XO-1.75 already runs Fedora and we have images for F-17 (have had
> since Nov last year).

Yep, I have seen yours at FUDCon Milan ;)

>>
>> - How to cross build Fedora by hand (with specific target)? (Is there
>> a general repo for patches, file system…?)
>> - How to cross build Fedora by hand for a supported/tested target
>> (like the one released for F17 Beta)?
>
> We don't cross compile anything, all the Fedora ARM packages are
> compiled natively on ARM platforms.
>

Ok nice!

>
>>  [0] probably link to the right page, but only found info about the
>> kernel, nothing about file system, yum…
>> - How do you guys work with arm.koji.fedoraproject.org? How one
>> contributor could help getting failed packages built?
>>  [1] is probably the answer, but as I know basically nothing about
>> koji… (I only know how to build an RPM locally).
>
> arm.koji works in exactly the same way as mainline Fedora. All
> packages built are done so automatically by a script called
> koji-shadow so that we get an identical package set as mainline. So if
> you fix a package it needs to be fixed and built on mainline and the
> build will automatically happen on ARM soon after.
>
> You can test scratch builds using "arm-koji build --scratch rawhide
> package.src.rpm"

Great thanks!

>> - The status about ARM as a primary arch? (Ok, I could probably find
>> it on my mailbox… but the thread is so long).
>>  The main issue is to get Anaconda, right?
>
> We now have a criteria to move towards the primary goal from FESCo.
> Anaconda is one, kernels is another. The packaging side of things is
> almost there. There's likely a number of other things as well
> procedural amongst others.
>
>> - What are the needs on the team? Getting failed packages to build on koji.arm?
>
> There's a list of packages that need assistance / investigation here.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora17_rawhide#broken_on_arm_general_packages

Ok, bookmarked!

Thank you,


-- 
Kévin Raymond
(shaiton)
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