Announcing the release of Fedora 22 Alpha for AARCH64 and POWER64!

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Timo Schöler <timo at riscworks.net> wrote:
> On 03/30/2015 11:45 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>> Fedora 22 Alpha Release Announcement
>> ====================================
>>
>> The Fedora 22 Alpha release for the AARCH64 and POWER 64 secondary architectures
>> has arrived, with a preview of the latest free and open source technology under
>> development. Take a peek inside!
>>
>>   • Get Fedora 22 Alpha Server
>>     https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/
>>
>>   • https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/22_Alpha/Server/
>
> Can confirm it boots on an IBM Power 285 (Power5+, model 9111-285) machine.
>
> However, I ran into two problems:
>
> * anaconda shows a borked cursor color; this is a regression, as it
> worked on F21.

Known issue, see the tracker bugs, it wasn't considered and Alpha blocker.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207620
>
> * yum update borks out with "Package perl-parent-0.231-1.fc22.noarch.rpm
> is not signed":

We get that on occasion with secondary architectures, we don't
currently don't have a mechanism to gate builds based on signing like
mainline does with bodhi. Adding "--nogpg" to yum/dnf will work around
it.