OOo PPC suport. [patchset !!] - Off-topic:

Joel Barrios jbarrios at linuxparatodos.net
Mon Nov 3 20:59:43 UTC 2003


Off-topic: 

Mozilla packages seem to be broken. The ppc binaries were build with
OPTFLAGS=-O2 and CXXFLAGS=-g (!) due to spec file stuff.

I sent earlier a message about this issue, but for some reason it has
not appeared in the list.

El lun, 03-11-2003 a las 10:00, Guy M. Streeter escribió:
> In 
> http://people.redhat.com/streeter/
> you'll find some rpms that will make an upgrade go more smoothly.
> A version of yum that doesn't look in the ppc64 arch for ppc rpms.
> A version of mkinitrd that doesn't require ppc64-utils.
> A version of fedora-release for ppc.
> 
> With these installed (and a bit of manual labor), I upgraded my YDL3
> iMac to rawhide.
> Except for the kernel.
> 
> --Guy
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:07, Balint Cristian wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:37, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > Once upon a time at band camp Sat, 1 Nov 2003 1:58 pm, Balint Cristian wrote:
> > > > On Friday 31 October 2003 20:21, Balint Cristian wrote:
> > > > > Will be an openoffice.org for ppc too ?
> > > >
> > > > 	I have the full patch over .spec plus some ppc aware patches
> > > > wich make fedora's openoffice.org-1.1.0-4-src.rpm to build and work
> > > > for me on latest ppc-rawhide on my ibook.
> > >
> > > Just curious  how you installed on  a ppc machine. did you start with
> > > yellow dog and upgrade to rawhide via yum or is there ppc iso's out there? 
> > > i have a 400mhz G3  with 420 MB ram  and have yellow dog on it currently
> > > but would love to put Fedora on it.  im thinking of setting rawhide to my
> > > yum.conf and running yum update.  what do you think?
> > 
> > 	Yes, it is very possible, i have an poor ibook at 300Mhz and keeped up to date since 
> > half year.
> > 	Olso seen on redhat-mail lists guys who are using ppc rawhide tree in the past when was no such ting like fedora
> > was only the RH rawhide (check mailing list history).
> > 
> > 	RH pack for IBM mainframes boxes thay are not aware of macs, but the tree is very
> > usable on macs too as userland.
> > 
> > >
> > > Matthias  just curious if your yellow dog packages will work with fedora? 
> > > i guess they should.  any ideas on a good way to proceed?
> > 
> > Huhh, story, to clarify my HOWTO: 
> > 
> > 	Half year ago have YDL-2.? than step by step I rpm -Uvh (no yum/repos at that time) packages from
> > rawhide except these very mac specific packages:
> > 
> > kernel- (unexistent in rawhide)
> > initscripts-
> > gpm-
> > pmud- (unexistent in rawhide)
> > 
> > 	In reset _everything_ is upgradable no YDL will broke if these 4 are kept original
> > and untouched from YDL.
> > 
> > 	Now can't use yum, I am always afraid to not broke these 4 packages (practicaly 2->
> > initscript and gpm), i trick yum by pass exactly what want to update never do something like "yum update", olso
> > I selfmaintain gpm+initscripts by recompile it from YDL src.rpm but increase the version number
> > to trick yum (ugly dirty method), than i can "yum update" the whole and no breakage happen.
> > 
> > 	If someone know how to config yum to not upgrade specific packages will be nice 
> > will save from dirty thing !
> > 
> > 	As last clarify, exept these two package i have no YDL originated .rpm on my mac,
> > i thing if want try Fedora i suggest to upgrade _everything_ not just half, i dont know
> > how will work with mixture of Fedora/YDL, big booboo will not be but something like
> > icon disapearing and menu disapearing in KDE stuff can happen. 
> > 
> > 
> > You can start, play if want :)
> > 
> > Cristian.
> > 
> > PS:
> > 	I forgot to suplly binary OOo-1.1.0-4.ppc.rpm's but intentionaly because of bandwith, if someone request,
> > tell me (it will take a while to upload somewhere), but latest rawhide is required otherwise not work !
> > 	
> > 
> > >
> > > Dennis
> > >
> > >
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> 
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Joel Barrios D.
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