4:33 p.m.
Paul Iadonisi wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:20:43AM -0400, mike(a)flyn.org wrote:
>Is there any plans to add a PowerPC build of Fedora?
[snip]
>Are there any like-minded folks out there?
Yes. Me. ;-)
Well, not just PowerPC, but also some other non-x86 platforms in general.
One request I'd like to make to Red Hat (and any other package maintainers)
is to please, please, please, don't make rpms ExclusiveArch unless absolutely
necessary. I realize that may already be the case, but I'm just putting my
[SNIP]
Also, will patches for non-x86 (even not [yet] supported) platforms
be
accepted? I'm guessing that the answer is 'as time permits' which is fine,
I would just like to know if it's worth submitting patches at all for Alpha,
Arm, (as well as Sparc and PowerPC). Given that Fedora is intended for
the hobbyist, developer, enthusiast, I'm hoping that the answer is yes.
[SNIP]
Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(.
Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems
that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
Cheers,
Nicholas
4:47 p.m.
New subject: PowerPC support
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:33:30PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(.
Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems
that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
Once the appropriate infrastructure is in place, I don't see why
not. Not one of Red Hat's priorities, of course, but that's one
of the beautiful things about moving towards enabling community
contribution -- Red Hat's priorities are no longer the only
consideration.
Again, it will take a while to get the infrastructure in place.
It's not even defined yet.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin
http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
9:15 a.m.
New subject: PowerPC support
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(.
Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems
that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
In principle, as a Red Hat person and an Aurora person, I think you're
right. In practice, not much is going to happen here until we get a real
policy for how to merge changes "upstream" to Fedora, and external access
to some build system for it. I suspect this will still take quite some
time.
--
Peter
"Java is the most distressing thing to happen to computing since MS-DOS."
-- Alan Kay
9:08 a.m.
New subject: PowerPC support
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
In principle, as a Red Hat person and an Aurora person, I think
you're
right. In practice, not much is going to happen here until we get a real
policy for how to merge changes "upstream" to Fedora, and external access
to some build system for it. I suspect this will still take quite some
time.
Right, we have to walk before we can run. :-)
First priority is external CVS so that we have a place to merge in,
before we can so much as start merging in build systems.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin
http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
9:35 p.m.
New subject: PowerPC support
I finally found some time to build some of severn's SRPMs on my YellowDog
iBook. I now have many PPC RPMs built and more on the way. I have no
place to put them to share: if anyone wishes to host them, please let
me know.
As I mentioned before, I am very interested in contributing to Fedora
on PPC. Now that my iBook is starting to run Fedora, I should be able
to help. It would be great if the Fedora project aided distributions
like YellowDog as they support alternative platforms.
On a related note, is there a way to do a one-command build of a release
like severn, similar to OpenBSD's build system? I am currently building
in dependency order by hand and I would like to automate things more.
--
Mike
:wq
8:22 a.m.
New subject: PowerPC support
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
I finally found some time to build some of severn's SRPMs on my
YellowDog
iBook. I now have many PPC RPMs built and more on the way. I have no
place to put them to share: if anyone wishes to host them, please let
me know.
The effort is cool, but unnecessary -
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/ppc/
(Once Rawhide is back, that is.)
-- Elliot
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
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