ppc June 2011

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tracking of packages that have build failures
by Dan Horák 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hi all secondary architectures, s390x is probably the most up-to-date secondary architecture in Fedora and because there are still packages that fail to build I have started a wiki page [1] to track that issues. It's meant as a temporary storage before the failure is fully analysed and - fix is applied to the package or - proper bug report in Fedora or upstream is created or - the set of supported architectures is updated. Usually a short info about the cause of the failure is written here and interested parties can take packages from this list and try to resolve the failure. Right now the list is shared mainly between s390x and ppc, but in my opinion it could be useful also for other arches, like in sparc for endianity issues same as in ppc/s390x, etc. And as you probably know it's a never ending fight because what could be built yesterday can fail today :-( Dan [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/BuildIssues

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'redhat.com | Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini' international
by Alyona Lompar 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hi! I'm willing to translate page located at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/mac-mini/ to the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your written permission, so you don't mind after I'll post the translation to my blog. The translation is intended only for web, no print copies planned. Visitors of your website, who come from Minsk (Belorussia) will be the ones, who will read this blogpost, that's the only way to spread them, no additional instruments we can use. Every translation we ever do does not costs a penny for the webpage, which is translated. All we ask is to link back in whatever way you feel confident about it. You can leave a voice message and I will call you back, if you prefer a call instead of emails. Do you prefer email or IM for contact (if any questions regarding the translation arise)? What instant messaging client (if any) do you use? AIM, MSN, Skype? Thank you! Sincerely, Alyona Lompar +(360) 488-0303 --- This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately.

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GHC on ppc64 - current status & near future
by Jiri Skala 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Dear fans of Haskell and PowerPC, as was announced earlier Fedora for PowerPC has revived as a secondary arch. There are available images and repositories for Fedora 15 (ppc, ppc64) and the PowerPC release is planned for Fedora 16. GHC was available for ppc already in Fedora 12. Good news is bootstrapping ghc-7.0.2 for ppc64 in Fedora 15. You can find also a number of packages of Haskell platform that are built for ppc64 (20-25%). Builds for F16 are not available yet because of waiting for release of ghc-7.0.4 (RC1 was announced on Jun 03 by upstream). Fedora 16 should contain ppc64 builds of almost whole Haskell platform. These things will be announced here. Why 'almost'? Unfortunately ppc64 is listed among "Tier 2 platforms" by upstream - see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms Especially ppc64 doesn't support GHCi (interactive environment) and NCG (Native Code Generator) yet. Due to this we wouldn't be able to build minimal following packages: - ghc-template-haskel - ghc-ForSyDe - ghc-QuickCheck - ghc-hamlet - ghc-parameterized-data - ghc-type-level I hope the list is probably completed and will not grow up. Ghceers Jiri

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Building openjade
by Robert Knight 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

In preparation for building local test rpms, I tried yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" and found that openjade was required but not available from http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mnt/koji/mash/15/ so, after a little Google action, I came across Matthew Burgess's patch for openjade to make it build on gcc 4.6.0 at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.support/42555 (there's probably a better URL for this.) His patch works in that it corrects the problem with building openjade. I do not know whether the code actually works. I'm ignorant of the protocols for using patches found on the web, so I don't know whether this can just be used. The real difficult is that openjade was last built for Fedora 13, which was not a ppc Fedora release, so there is no way to just carry the F13 rpm forward. I hope this is helpful and that the list is the right place to report this.

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No recent F-15 builds
by Peter Lemenkov 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hello. I see that all recent builds were made for F-16 only. Is something going wrong? -- With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.

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Quick update PPC status
by Phil Knirsch 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi everyone. It's been roughly a month since the last update, so i wanted to send out a quick update of where we are. Things have been progressing nicely and we now even have 2 mash trees with install images for testing available for, one for ppc, the other for ppc64: http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mnt/koji/mash/15/ Those are our current development trees, so things might be broken at times. Also the rpms aren't signed as we're changing stuff to fast and this isn't a release. We have tested them on a Power7 box as well as on an older Apple G5, but your mileage may vary. Especially on Power5 and Power6 the problem still exists that the unified initramfs of Anaconda is too large to fit into the initial RAM during bootup, so you'll need to revert to the method described in the next paragraph. If you want to go a bit of a safer route you can try out an upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 15. Dan Horak has described how to do this in a blog entry he wrote: http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/8649.html It's quite a bit of manual work, but it's pretty straight forward what to do. So feel free to give that a shot if you want to try that way instead of a fresh install with the mash images and trees. As stated previously, we won't be doing an official Fedora 15 release, it's just not ready yet. But Fedora 16 is definitely planed and currently on track. Current state of the work can always be found here, as usual: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC Thanks & regards, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany

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