Re: [fedora-arm] Upgrading koji builders for gnulib and standardisation

El Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:06:59 +0000 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com&gt; escribió: > Hi Seneca, > > We're running into a bug with gnulib which is causing some issues > with a number of builds such as coreutils [1], findutils, gettext > (at least) and some packages that depend on those packages. > Unfortunately as its one of those horrible bundled everywhere libs > its not as easy as just upgrading it. > > We need to get the koji builders standardised so we don't continue > to run into these and other issues (like bugs in different versions > of mock, kernels etc). > > After losing all too much time over the weekend and chatting with > dgilmore can we please work to move all the builders to a config > based on the following to ensure the builders are as close to > identical as possible including: > - F-15 based sfp/hfp OS installs > - ext4 (see link below) > - decent amount of swap (2Gb+ as gcc needs 2Gb to properly compile > link, as does the likes of webkit, java, QT etc which means without > swap we're currently screwed on armv5tel). > - same kernels where possible but at least the same core config such > as ipv6 etc where not > - same versions of mock etc > > Maybe we could come up with a rootfs tar ball which just needs a > kernel added. Also it looks to be a good time to review the setup > for /var/lib/mock and come up with an alternative that's not such a > bottleneck. > > I've seen a number of build problems over the weekend that were > explained by differing configs and that is somewhat concerning and > hindering forward progress. > > Let me know how I can help get this in place ASAP. > > Regards, > Peter > > [1] Details are outlined here > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora15_HardFP_Bootstrap... one thing that would be great for someone to work on is making the kernel build a kirkwood image also. then we would just have the efikas needing a special kernel. at least based i the hardware i know is there. Dennis