[Fedora-ia64-list] F8 for ia64 now available

[Zhan, Yi]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 13:53 -0500, Doug Chapman wrote:
> > 
> > In fact, the weird thing is that many drivers is missing in the
> > stage2.img. The directory <stage2>/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ only
> > contains one driver "vesa_drv.so". Since the xorg.conf seems to be
> > generated at stage2 by using pyxf86config, I guess this is why the
> > string 'Driver "vesa"' appears in the default config file. We do have
> > the 'ati' and many other drivers built in "everything", but pungi just
> > refused to add them to the stage2.img. 
> > 
> > Do you have any idea why this happen?  
> 
> This sounds like a packaging error on my part.  I did need to do some
> customizing due to some of the X server packages not building.  Possibly
> ati was left out due to this.
> 

Verified that by doing a few tries with pungi. The issue could be avoid
by adding the 6 xorg-x11-drv-*'s mentioned in the missing packages
section to the repo and compose an new iso.

IMO, we may need some updates for the iso and the 'everything'? Two
things I noticed when trying to build the lack packages.

a) 72 more perl packages, tetex and some other packages could be built
cleanly now. Adding these to everything repo let some useful packages,
such as git, be installed without dependency trouble.

b) It seems that packages in the "prebuilt" directory previous are not
in everything repo this time. I agree that having a clean distro is
important. But we may still need the prebuilt stuffs (like the
xorg-x11-drv-*) for now. Generating a complete list for this packages
might be good. 

One more thing, I compared the built packages in F8-ia64 everything's
SRPMS with the official F8 SRPMS. There are totally about 452 packages
did not build and about 8 packages using slightly different version. For
now I got 88 packages to build and verify 48 packages which are arch
excluded. I think it's good to identify each package's state, failed
reason and tricks to get it build. The problem is how to share these
info?

Thanks, 
Yi