[fedora-arm] Fedora 19 aarch64 builds

[Al Stone]

On 02/12/2015 06:54 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
> On 11 Feb 2015 21:01, "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org
> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/11/2015 07:52 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> >
>> > On 11 Feb 2015 19:00, "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org
> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>
>> > <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 02/11/2015 03:40 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Karanbir Singh
>> > <mail-lists at karan.org <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>
> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>>> wrote:
>> >> >> hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Rumour has it that there were fedora19 tree's that worked for the APM
>> >> >> Mustang boards. Where can I find this ? Or is fedora21 the only aarch64
>> >> >> build published ?
>> >> >
>> >> > There was a bastard bring up set of scatch builds that weren't
>> >> > suitable really for anything much and it went away as soon as enough
>> >> > of the F-21 tree was built. F-21 is the only thing that is supported.
>> >>
>> >> I need something to base the bootstrap for the EL7 on armv7 off of, so
>> >> getting access to a baseline older tree, as a mock target, would be
>> > awesome.
>> >
>> > So if you want to bootstrap armv7 you won't want aarch64 package
>> > sets.... The ARMv7 f19 package sets are still on the archive mirrors
>> > under secondary arches.
>>
>> right, correction - want to bootstarp aarch64
> 
> So someone might have an old mirror somewhere, if you're lucky, but as it wasn't
> an official release, it was hacked and horrid in every bring up way and
> everything went upstream it was killed because we needed the nas/san space.
> 
> TBH you'd be better off and more reproducible to do an initial bootstrap bringup
> on f21 and then move to mock centos 7 configs with the bringup builds and
> respind the builds running on f21 hosts than any of the f19 crap.
> 
> Peter

As one of the people that made the mess, Peter is absolutely right.  There's
really no need to bother with the old stuff.  There was a lot of scotch tape,
chewing gum and baling wire involved.  Start with at least f21.

If you want to borrow any of the scripts used early on, you should be able to
see their last used state at https://github.com/ahs3/bootstrap.


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ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3 at redhat.com
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