Fedora 8-based distro for Alpha CD Announcement

[Anders Waananen]

Hi Jay

Great work!

I burned the CD and gave it a try on my AS1000A erasing my previous
alphacore3 installation. I chose text install, but anaconda stalled at some
point during the CD install. I did not do much investigation. Rather than
following the suggestion about alternate ISO image I did a successful ftp
install with the CD mounted on another machine without any problems.

Trying to setup a build environment I had some problems with mock.

Suggestions:

1. Add link /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.6.90.so needed by mock
2. Add comps.xml with buildsys-build group in the repo.
3. Add appropriate /etc/mock/fedora-8-alpha.cfg to mock RPM
4. Apply the following patch to mock:

###
# diff -u /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mock/util.py{.shipped,}
--- /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mock/util.py.shipped       2007-12-21 11:02:50.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mock/util.py       2008-04-15 14:16:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
     'x86_64': PER_LINUX, 'ppc64': PER_LINUX, 'sparc64': PER_LINUX,
     'i386': PER_LINUX32, 'i586': PER_LINUX32, 'i686': PER_LINUX32, 
     'ppc': PER_LINUX32, 'sparc': PER_LINUX32, 'sparcv9': PER_LINUX32,
+    'alpha' : PER_LINUX,
 }
 
 import ctypes
###

Cheers

Anders

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