When F16 PPC image will be available ?

[Karsten Hopp]

Am 04.08.2011 17:22, schrieb Adam Williamson:
> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 13:22 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> >  Manash Kumar Nayak píše v Čt 04. 08. 2011 v 16:28 +0530:
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >  On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Frank Murphy<frankly3d at gmail.com>
> >  >  wrote:
> >  >
> >  >          On 04/08/11 10:24, Manash Kumar Nayak wrote:
> >  >          >  I was looking for F16 PPC Alpha TC1 image, but unfortunately
> >  >          could not
> >  >          >  find the same.
> >  >          >  I think it is not yet available to test.
> >  >          >  Any idea when F16 PPC image would be available for testing ?
> >  >          >
> >  >          >  Thanks&  Regards,
> >  >          >  Manas
> >  >          >
> >  >          >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >          >ppc hasn't been supported since Fedora 13, iirc.
> >  >          >https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/
> >  >
> >  >        I heard F16 is going to support PPC this time. But don't have
> >  >  much official information on this.
> >  >        Thanks Frank for this info.
> >
> >  PPC is a secondary architecture for some time in Fedora, see
> >  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC
>
> Right, and secondary arches do not necessarily follow the schedule of
> primary arches; in theory they can, but usually they don't. It's up to
> the PPC SIG to produce the testing images they consider appropriate, and
> to decide when to produce them.

At the moment we have less than 600 packages that are older than their
counterparts on the primary archs, 9800 packages are at the same level.
Unfortunately some of the 'big' packages like python,  binutils or the 
latest gcc
have issues that either block progress completely or force us to use 
older versions
until they get fixed.

Nonetheless we're currently working on getting some installable images, 
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    Karsten