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

[Timo Schöler]

On 03/31/2015 12:51 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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.

ACK

>> 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.

Thx for clarification on this.

> Adding "--nogpg" to yum/dnf will work around
> it.

Sure, did so.



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