[Fedora-ia64-list] is there an F10 for ia64?

[John L. Bass]

Thanks Doug for the update ... and all your hard work for the last
several years.

Will you be leading the way from here? Do you still have HP support for
your time in the project?

What can the rest of us do?

Have fun,
John

Doug Chapman wrote:
> Well... there is good and bad news with respect to Fedora-ia64
>
> The bad:
> The Fedora-ia64 project as it once existed is essentially dead.  This is
> due to a combination of technical, political and legal issues, some of
> which I can't really go in to.
>
> Back in the F7/F8 timeframe doing a full build of Fedora on ia64 was
> very difficult.  We had scripts that built rpms using mock but they were
> ugly and unreliable.  For the F9 timeframe we moved to a koji based
> solution with the plan being that eventually our ia64 koji server would
> get linked in with the primary koji server.  That way packages would
> automatically get built on ia64 any time it was built on x86/ppc.  That
> never happened so we had even more hacked up scripts to try to stay in
> sync.
>
> The good:
> Fedora has matured a bit with respect to secondary architectures (i.e.
> not x86 or ppc) over the past year or so.  However since there are some
> other groups interested in building Fedora on other arches (ia64, sparc,
> s390, arm) other tools such as "mock" have been improved significantly.
> I also just today learned of a tool called "smock" which is a front end
> to mock that helps build packages in the correct order.  Build order
> issues probably account for over 90% of the problems we had in the past.
>
> I have received some interested from Intel regarding building Fedora for
> ia64.  What I am working on is writing up some new scripts and
> documentation on how to cleanly build Fedora.
>
> I am very glad to see there interest.  I will send out the updated
> documentation and scripts to this list.  It would be good to have more
> users trying it out.
>
> thanks,
>
> - Doug
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:30 -0500, Dave Bowman wrote:
>   
>> I have been using F9 on ia64 for a while but I have not seen anything
>> regarding F10 (or F11 for that matter).  Is Fedora still being built
>> on ia64?
>>
>> I have been playing around with "mock" to build packages and was
>> considering trying to build a more recent Fedora myself.  Anybody
>> tried this?
>>
>> Dave 
>>     
>
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