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

Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:58:23 -0500
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On Saturday 17 April 2010 05:59:28 am Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47:42PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 11:55:53 am Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > > On 04/13/2010 12:36 PM, mat wrote:
> > > > Oops, looks like I broke the first rule of mailing list postings la=
st
> > > > week and sent a message whilst drinking and annoyed... *facepalm*
> > > > Sorry about that everyone, and thanks for the sane and helpful
> > > > replies. Really I deserved a proper flaming for that last rant so I
> > > > think the least I could do is jump back in to some testing, eh?
> > >=20
> > > I'm pretty sure this is the old prelink bug rearing its ugly head
> > > again.
> > >=20
> > > Booting into Rescue Mode and running:
> > >   prelink -ua && rpm -e prelink
> > >=20
> > > Should do the trick. I think we've got it fixed with the latest updat=
e.
> >=20
> > newer builds have prelink disabled by default.  I need to respin anacon=
da
> > and spin up some beta isos.  the issue could also be selinux preventing
> > things from running. there is a kernel to fix it which will land in the
> > next compose.
>=20
> I still run Aurora corresponding to fedora 9 on one of the servers
> (E450). After old clamav support drop I feel that I am finally forced to
> upgrade, maybe on Monday.
>=20
> The question is if I should use the 12-Alpha or development version.
> When do you plan to upload new packages?
I did a Beta compose today,  ive done one test install of it.  I need to do=
 a=20
couple more

> Do you plan to compile updates after v. 12 is released? Or maybe they
> are included already in the devel tree?
Yes updates are planned. currently quite a few of them are compiled. Im in =
the=20
process of signing the ones built so they can be pushed out=20

>=20
> I used to use the 32-bit userspace but the 64-bit one works quite nice
> on Intel-like machines so maybe I will use sparc64 in this new install.
> I managed to upgrade from f6 to f9 without big troubles but a jump do
> f11 or f12 is to big so I will make a fresh install. I will not be
> testing any ISO images, I will make a bootstrap tree on Intel f12
> machine.

We nly support 32 bit userland and 64 bit kernel.  I do not think you will=
=20
successfully be able to do what your attempting the %post scripts in the=20
packages will not be able to run. and you wont be able to run silo to insta=
ll=20
the bootloader.  you could likely use mock or febootstrap to setup a new=20
environment from your existing install.  All of which is untested.


Dennis

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