Fedora 8-based distro for Alpha CD Announcement

[Anders Waananen]

Hi Oliver

Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> writes:

> Hi Anders!
>
> Anders Waananen wrote:
>> Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> writes:
>> 
>>> 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)!
>> 
>> Excellent!
>>> What are you building? Any reason not to use koji from buildsys?
>> 
>> Wanted to build Torque (batch system) and use the machine in or Grid build
>> environment which is interfaced with mock. I'm not familiar with koji and how
>> it relates to mock.
>
> Torque is available for F8 Alpha:
> http://buildsys.zero42.at/koji/packageinfo?packageID=10520

Yes, thanks I discovered this yesterday - that solved one problem.

>
> More information about koji (the Fedora buildsystem; Also used at
> Zero42): fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji. It uses mock and is used for
> building rpms. I'm not sure what you'd like to build!?

I'm participating in an EU sponsered project where we do Grid middleware
development. For portability reasons I would like to see it build on
Alphas. Internally in our project we use nightly builds and use the Grid
middleware itself to accomplish this in order to taste our food - so to
speak. It interfaces to mock for RPM based distros and pbuilder for DEB
distros.

Cheers

Anders

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