[fedora-arm] Fedora-ARM Koji Setup

[Kedar Sovani]

> ________________________________________
> From: Michel Salim [michel.sylvan at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:52 PM
> To: Kedar Sovani
> Cc: Fedora-Arm
> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora-ARM Koji Setup
>
> Hi Kedar,
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Kedar Sovani <kedars at marvell.com> wrote:
> > We are in the process of setting up a koji Shadow Build server for
> > shadowing builds from the main Fedora Build server.
> >
> > It can be reached here:
> > http://fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/koji
> >
> > Once setup it should greatly help in keeping up with the latest builds.
> > I'll drop a note once it is up and functional.
> >
> Is the idea that Fedora developers do not have to issue builds for ARM
> manually, and the shadow server will just attempt a build everytime a
> build is attempted for, say, Fedora 10?
>

Yes, the ARM koji will automatically shadow builds, for koji build tags, once they are available
on the main server. We use the koji-shadow utility (available in the latest koji-utils release).

> Speaking for myself, I'd be interested in making sure my packages work
> fine on ARM -- Robert Nelson has kindly given me an account on his
> test machine -- and it would be nice to be able to issue scratch
> builds for ARM only, and once fixed, commit the changes upstream so
> that the next build is ARM compliant out of the box.
>
> With that in mind, it would be nice if Fedora developers get to issue
> builds on the ARM machine. Perhaps eventually integrate it with the
> Fedora Authentication System, though that might be a lot of work
> (RPMfusion still maintains a separate auth system, AFAIK)
>

That is the plan. You should be able to login into the ARM koji hub with
your Fedora browser certificates.

> Thanks,
>

Best,
Kedar.