new s390x secondary arch maintainer
I already have a lot of experience with IBM mainframes as I was involved in Red Hat Linux 7.0 for s390x (64bit) and Red Hat Linux 7.1 for s390 (31bit) and did the initial anaconda port for those...
View ArticleEclipse dependency hell
I've finally managed to build all buildrequirements for java-openjdk and finally openjdk itself.It took only ~13-14 hours on our quite busy mainframe ;-(The next step is to build eclipse so that I can...
View ArticleStatus of F-11 on s390x
I'm currently looping over all F-11 packages in CVS and building them on s390x. There are still not all build dependencies satisfied, so I'd expect quite a few failures.Mails to the maintainers have...
View ArticleFirst boot of F-11 on s390x
I've managed to do a manual update of a minimal RHEL-5.3 installation to F-11 on zSeries. All packages have been replaced by their F-11 counterparts, only the RHEL-5 kernel remained as a fallback. The...
View ArticleF-14 on mainframe finally boots
It took quite a while, but the anaconda install images finally boot on s390x with just two workarounds. - There is a special case for s390x in anaconda that lower the recommended swap size to 1....
View Articlefedpkg/koji shortcomings when building for secondary archs
fedpkg definitely is an important step in the right direction and I appreciate the work that already has been done, but it has some shortcomings that will need to be addressed. I hope no one thinks I'm...
View ArticlePersistent undo in VIM-7.3
VIM-7.3 (in Rawhide and f12-testing) has a nice new feature: persistent undo. In earlier versions undo wouldn't work after a vim buffer or vim itself got closed. VIM-7.3 can be configured to keep the...
View Articlelooking for testers of Fedora-14 for System z (s390x)
We're getting closer to a release candidate of F-14 for mainframes. The latest packages and boot images have been uploaded to the s390x secondary arch directory.There's a new image (~600Mb) for the...
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PPC secondary arch progress
This is a shameless copy of Dan's idea to present the s390x rebuild progress, only this one is for PPC.'Older' means the latest RPM of a package is older on PPC then on the primary archs.'Same' and...
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PPC secondary arch progress
It looks much better after almost all noarch packages have been imported:
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PPC secondary arch progress
Noarch imports are done, now only real rebuilds are counting. Adrian is doing the mass rebuild while I concentrate on looking through the build failures and fix whatever needs to be fixed:'Older' means...
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PPC secondary arch progress
6860 packages done, 2800 more required to catch up with the primary archs:'Older' means the latest RPM of a package is older on PPC then on the primary archs.'Same' and 'newer' are for the reader to...
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PPC secondary arch progress
Steady progress, 2126 packages older than the latest package with the same name on primary arch dist-f15, 7543 have the same N-V-R, 250 are newer than its counterpart (sometimes we have to use packages...
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PPC secondary arch progress
Automatic rebuilds with koji-shadow have started, so I'd expect that the number of older packages continues to drop even more in the next few days:Martin Gracik has almost completed his work on PPC...
View ArticleFedora 16 for PowerPC: Alpha got released !
Phil has already posted the announcement, but I think this is also worth a blog entry. We've finally fixed all our blockers for the alpha release of F-16 for PowerPC, got all packages properly signed...
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