Mass rebuilds and FESCO

[Oliver Falk]

Hi!

On 06/26/2007 10:22 AM, Balint Cristian wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 22:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> I don't think it's happened yet, and if it did it /really/ should be 
>>> coordinated with the tools folks (glibc/gcc/etc...) to see if they
>>> have anything coming down the pike that would require or could take
>>> advantage of a coordinated rebuild effort.
>> If we're going to bring a secondary architecture in before F8, it would
>> probably be sane to do so before the mass rebuild. How close are we to
>> being able to merge Alpha or SPARC?
> 
> 
> Alpha team status update:
> 
>    We <alpha> setted up a koji enviroment and struggle to come  in sync with
> latest F8 packages.
> 
>    http://buildsys.zero42.at/koji/index is the HUB.
> 
>    However we work on extend to other builders for more CPU cycles, but right 
> now we have 2 online ones.
> 
>    Actualy we work on feed from fp.o koji succesfull builds in our koji, and fix eventual
> alpha related issues as much as possible on the fly, Oliver Falk is working on this.
>    Olso we have some blacklisted packages like kernel/glibc since we havent got chance
> to merge .spec files adjustments and alpha specific patches into fedora ones.

Just a short note. glibc is no longer b/l. glibc-2.6-1 compiled fine and
has been imported in our alpha-koji-buildsys.

I do see only a few big issues at the moment:
* kernel - need to bring in patches to fp.o and try to not overuse ifarch's
* eclipse - my biggest pain - need it for gcc and all java stuff.
* openoffice - never tried on alpha, but don't want to think what will
come...

>    We are looking forward for any help/guidance regarding merger, we olso discuss a bit
> with Dennis Gilmore over IRC, he updated us with the idea of fetch back/forth packages 
> between fp.o <--> alpha.o but this need to have some fp.o side support wich is quite
> not ready yet.

Any help to bring fp.o and alpha.o in sync is appreciated!
Spare-Alpha-CPU-Cycles. Devels who can fix alpha-related issues... And
so on....


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