Fedora PPC status & work in progress :)

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Apr 28 13:38:42 UTC 2011


On Thursday, April 28, 2011 08:32:48 AM David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:31 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to
> > > have an official PowerPC release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to
> > > definitely get it done for Fedora 16.
> > 
> > Am I interpreting this right that this effctively means we will have
> > to run a new installation on PPC machines currently runninc F12?
> 
> Well, if you want to do a yum update, you don't *need* the installer
> initrd to work :)
> 
> There's no real reason you shouldn't be able to update to the F15
> packages even without an installer, surely?
Its actually pretty dicey,  you would need a fully updated f12  since glibc 
requires a 2.6.32 kernel. and with the change from upstart to systemd. ive 
seen cases where the yum updated box wouldnt boot.  and you cant go back to 
the older kernel to poke at things.

Dennis
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