Fedora 8-based distro for Alpha CD Announcement

[Jay Estabrook]

Anders Waananen wrote:
>
> 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.

I had had trouble on my AS1000A during testing, but I think it was
power supply related; I removed all but 1 disk and retried with the
20080404 ISO yesterday, and did a successful GUI (Permedia-2) install.

The only "stall" I've seen with the latest ISO was on DS15/DS25, at the
point where "transferring image to hard disk" message appears; that was
solved by using the older (20080311) ISO, hence the recommendation.

Also, thanks for the feedback on the success of an FTP install; I did
one via NFS on an earlier ISO with success, but hadn't tested FTP or
HTTP recently.

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

Ah; not something I'm familiar with, though I know that Oliver and his
build team have used it extensively.

> 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
> ###

I'll look into getting this integrated, and fed back upstream.

Thanks.

> Cheers
> 
> Anders

Thanks for the feedback and help, Anders!

--Jay++