Ongoing Core 2 Port Status

[Mike Barnes]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:09:18 -0500, Richard Irving <rirving at antient.org> wrote:
>    I am rather surprised you couldn't interest the rest of the
> Fedora base to roll back in your Alpha changes...

We're getting a fair amount of stuff rolled back in to Rawhide. There
were surprisingly few packages that actually needed modifying. I've
mainly been submitting fixes to upstream package maintainers where
practical, so it'll get to everyone in time.

The Mozilla build patches, for example, are now in the main tree.
Other stuff is working its way into Rawhide.

There's some interest in keeping the Fedora tree building on Alpha,
but it's too much of an investment in time and resources to make this
a mainstream part of Fedora Core. I'm not saying that it can't happen,
just that it's not likely to in the near future. In the meantime,
we'll keep a fairly up-to-date tree that's usable and more-or-less
stable.

trying to keep pace with Fedora Core right now, given that it's going
through rapid changes and innovation, would just make it impossible to
keep on top of changes and we'd just have a perpetually "alpha"
(small-'a') system.

>    Most changes, except but a few, are related to the 64 bit System,
> not just Alpha...
>   As you solve the problems getting to the Alpha, you make it -all-
> closer to true 64 bit clean, in the first place...

Hence my approach to get these things fixed at the highest level
possible. It's mainly out of laziness - my ideal for this project is
just to pull packages from the Fedora Core tree and rebuild as they
become desirable.

The availability of other 64-bit platforms is helping considerably. A
lot of bugs are fixed before I can report them, and a solution is
quite often available by just building the newest package from
Rawhide.