should we be worried or status fedora ppc

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Feb 16 14:18:54 UTC 2007


On Friday 16 February 2007 09:13, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:43 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:40, james rooker wrote:
> > > Does secondary status mean it will be harder to get
> > > ppc rpm packages? Or harder to get ppc version iso
> > > images?
> >
> > Not so much.  It just means that builds on the primary arches won't fail
> > if the build fails on a secondary arch, so it will be up to the community
> > built around the secondary arch to ensure that the arch continues to
> > work.  The secondary arch group will also be responsible for spinning
> > their release, but the tools we provide make that very easy.
>
> Right.  However, the community will also need to provide it's own
> hosting and build infrastructure, which it currently doesn't have to do
> today.  This is something that a few of us are working on.

Perhaps not.  The PPC builders may be able to stay where they are, just become 
secondary arch builders.  Hosting for the arch may be provided by Fedora as 
well, just in a different directory.


-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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