Fedora 8-based distro for Alpha CD Announcement

[Oliver Falk]

Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Anders Waananen wrote:
>> 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

Nothing that someone will apply upstream in near future.

>> 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.

This patch has already been reported upstream (rh bz)!

What are you building? Any reason not to use koji from buildsys?

-of