Ongoing Core 2 Port Status

[Richard Irving]

Mike Barnes wrote:
> 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.

   Got to love that name, "Rawhide".   ;)

> 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.

   I wonder if we could automate a "diff" with two trees the old,
and the new....

   Or perhaps 4, the origin FC, the Alpha FC, the new FC,
and diffs between Alpha FC, and new FC ?

> 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.

    :(

   Yeah, I know.... if we only had endless time....


>>   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.

   I think, in the end, that when they are done, things that work
on other 64bit op systems... will came across smoother than they
do, today....

   But, then again, Nirvana is -always- one upgrade away.


   How is the bandwidth against the distribution ?

   I have been debating offering a mirror... bandwidth I have, time
  is the rarity.

   I have a couple 18 gig-ers on their way to try a virgin Fedora
  install... I will let you know...



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