Re: 12.3 status?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 29.01.2013 10:17, schrieb Marcus Meissner:
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:08:24AM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Is there any update on 12.3 status, given that a Beta party was
>>> announced? I.e., is there a more recent repository to test than 12.2, be
>>> it Factory or 12.3?
>>>
>>> And do we plan to merge Factory:PowerPC into Factory proper like ARM is
>>> targeting? Or are there still blockers keeping us from doing so?
>>
>> PowerPC for 12.3 is building in openSUSE:12.3 directly, in the ports repo.
>
> Great to hear that!
>
>> This causes some headaches currently as the "preinstallimages" speedups
>> for factory cause our workers to die (due to high io load we think, we
>> never fully debugged it).
>>
>> Factory is in a good state failure wise, and you should probably test
>> from this right now until PPC 12.3 is build through.
>
> I `zypper dup`ed to Factory yesterday and ran into a couple minor issues
> but am running fine now.
> * It hung on reboot after installation, had to force-poweroff.
> * There is no kernel-ppc64 any more, so my kernel was not upgraded.
Yes. it seems we have kernel-default here.
see: http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/config/ppc64/default?id=a9cc3d5d756636b4b1d5df6b2b42e9a95b448ba3
>   => `zypper in kernel-default` and change default Boot Loader in YaST
> * Quite a few packages stayed behind, mostly libraries. => zypper rm
> * The xf86-video-* packages have some ABI dependency issue currently.
> * Surprised that /dev/kvm didn't have group kvm, will check qemu.spec.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>> I have however not actually tried upgrading or installing.
>>
>> Ciao, Marcus
>
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