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

Doug Chapman dchapman at redhat.com
Wed Dec 12 13:18:19 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:51 +0800, Zhan, Yi wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:25 -0500, Doug Chapman wrote:
> > Yes, I really need to build a list which I will put on the wiki.  I
> > should be done with my critical RHEL work later this week and I plan
> > on spending a solid week or two just on Fedora issues to sort things
> > like this out.
> > 
> > What I plan on doing is having 5 lists:
> > 
> > A: packages that are not applicable on ia64
> > B: packages that don't build due to excludearch ia64 but ARE needed
> > C: packages that have build failures on ia64
> > D: packages that fail to build due to missing deps (i.e.needs something
> > from list B or C).
> > E: still to be investigated
> > 
> 
> Great, wiki seems a good way, I'd like to help with this. IMO, the most
> difficult thing here is to identify and analyze the root failture causes
> of the packages in list C. It might be possible to use scripts to
> categorise the packages by some typical failture causes, but most of the
> hard things need to be done manually. Creating other lists can utilize
> scripts better. I wrote a script to check the arch excluded packages
> several days ago. It might be useful for creating the list A & B. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Yi
> 

Yi,

Yes, list C will certainly be the bulk of the work.  You script sounds
very useful for generating lists A and B.  I look forward to trying it
out.

thanks!

- Doug






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