EPEL-6 Plan of attack

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Fri Mar 26 01:20:53 UTC 2010


On Thursday 25 March 2010 06:19:12 pm Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 12:38:39 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I wanted to put out there the plan for EL-6 branching and building.
> > 
> > Another thing that we need to work out is what architectures will be
> > supported.
> > 
> > we can build i686, x86_64, ppc and ppc64.  We could also likely build
> > s390 and s390x.  though that would mean we would need to mirror more
> > rhel arches.  as well access to the Z series builders would be more
> > limited.
> 
> Some RHEL 6 packages will only be built/supported on particular archs.
> The ones I know about:
> 
>   kvm etc                  x86_64
>   ocaml, ocaml-*           %{ix86}, x86_64
>   libguestfs, virt-v2v etc x86_64
> 
> Will it be possible to build these in EPEL 6 on the other
> architectures?
> 
> Rich.
Yes it will be possible.  it will need special coordination to make sure that 
we only ship it on other arches.  and might need some work on the koji side.

Dennis
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