Re: current Aurora releases

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:10 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:35 +0000, mat h wrote:
> > b: I know that Spot et al work flat out on a fantastic project and as
> > ever are pushing the newer releases as fast as they can, but aren't
> > the Aurora releases a bit chaotic at the moment? I mean, even more
> > than usual? It's a mess out there on the mirrors.
> > 
> Yes, they are really chaotic at the moment, and for that, I apologize.
> 
> Most of my time and energy has gone into Fedora lately, as I'm now
> working on that full-time for Red Hat. Dennis Gilmore and I have been
> putting spare-time resources into building SPARC infrastructure for
> Fedora, with the (optimistic) goal of enabling Fedora 9 SPARC. 


This sounds like great news!  It means that Sparc won't be treated like
the illegitimate cousin of Linux distributions? ;-)



> Dennis
> has a Koji builder, and we have some Fedora 9 level packages built. Java
> is causing us a lot of pain in this area, but we're working on it (and
> in some cases, hacking around it).
> 
> This week (as soon as I get back into Boston), my plan is to continue
> working on sparc64 kernel configs, so that we can incorporate the
> changes into the main Fedora kernel cvs. This will mean that future
> kernels generated by Fedora should be as simple as a rebuild on sparc64.
> 
> Eventually, the plan is still to do a final Aurora 3.0 release based on
> FC-6, but given the relative stability of the last 2.99 spin (the only
> major failure bugs were around ipv6 during install and niagara hardware
> not working correctly), it may just get promoted to 3.0 so that we can
> refocus entirely on Fedora SPARC.
> 
> ~spot
> 
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