Fedora on PPC

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Mon Oct 27 17:37:40 UTC 2003


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Paul Nasrat wrote:

> I've got a very minimal install of Fedora on PPC (ibook2) working over
> the weekend.
> 
> Main gotcha other than kernel packages was the mkinitrd from ppc rawhide
> repo required ppc64-utils - I assume that the conditional in mknitrd
> should be ifarch ppc64?

That won't work - the mkinitrd package itself is ppc (32-bit).

I think probably what needs to be done is have the pmac-utils package into 
Fedora and have it provides: ppc64-utils.

-- Elliot
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on a rainy Sunday afternoon.






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