Re: Fwd: [Fedora-sparc] SPARC Status update

Upgrade from Aurora 2.99 - massive fail.

Install fresh on a U60 - massive fail (details can be provided).

Arg.

I don't have any other spare machines to waste on this - to be honest all the sparc64 machines I 
look after have been running OpenBSD or Debian (or even Solaris) for several years now, whereas 
Aurora has been - let's face it - essentially a dead, experimental project for too long. Way too long.

Guys, I love Aurora but seriously you're going to have to give me a good reason to not just utterly 
dump it at this point.

The web site is dead. There is no documentation worth anything. You seem to have all switched to IRC 
(which must be great for all the 12 year olds out there hacking Sparc/Linux...) instead of using a 
perfectly good mailing list which all of us normal adults can check.

Best regards, and thanks again to all the hardworking devs. I will keep shadowing the developments 
and testing new systems, but I have officially given up at this point of ever having an Aurora 
machine in anything but unstable/dev/testing/broken ever again.

I hate to say it, but Debian have (multiple) perfectly fine distro versions for Sparc64. I recommend 
you use them. Fedora is utterly useless for anyone who doesn't have stupid x86/x86_64/PPC boxes.

God, I just re-read this and it seems like a terrible flame but I hate because I love. Please, 
please unfuck Aurora so I can actually use it again.


Cheers,

mat
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On 08/03/10 15:41, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Forwarding here to make sure those following this list still see it
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> Subject: [Fedora-sparc] SPARC Status update
> Date: Sunday 07 March 2010, 07:03:14 pm
> From: Dennis Gilmore<[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
>
> Hi all,
>
> Ive pushed a fedora 12 install tree to
> http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/12-
> Alpha/Fedora/sparc/
> which should also be on all the mirrors.
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-rawhide&arch=sparc
> will give you the list of mirrors.
>
> Please test and report issues here.
>
> To partition your system you need to break to a shell.  either in rescue mode
> or via a tty in anaconda as soon as the install starts.  you should then do a
> manual partition in anaconda and allocate mount point and file systems to the
> partitions you have made.  formatting works just fine, creating the partitions
> doesn't.
>
> some big fat warnings
>
> Partitioning in anaconda does not work.
> upgrades from previous releases are completely untested.
> prelink is broken and needs to be disabled post install
> selinux does not work in enforcing mode
> you will need to use vnc for install (you need to select manual partitioning)
> network booting the installer does not work and likely will not be supported
> at all (the images are way bigger than OBP allows.  we need some new solution)
>
> The UUID issue reported on this list seems to be solely due to artifacts left
> over from lvm previously being used on an install.
>
> i've probably missed things.
>
> Dennis
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