ppc64 builds

[Jesse Keating]

On Sunday 18 March 2007 14:43:18 David Woodhouse wrote:
> This is true. I was just suggesting that we don't necessarily need to
> rush out and do a mass rebuild of all Extras packages before F7 just to
> create ppc64 versions of them, since those _wouldn't_ be likely to end
> up in the "ppc" compose; they'd only be in the pure ppc64 tree which
> isn't a product we release; it's just the same as the unshipped ia64,
> s390 rawhide trees.

Except that we need them to be able to build for ppc64.  Every single build 
from the merge point on will build for our primary arches, which at this time 
is i386, x86_64, ppc, and ppc64.  We can't selectively build things, that 
arch has to be one for every package unless the package decides to not build 
for that arch.  That is part of being a primary arch.  If a ppc64 build 
fails, the entire build fails, and will have to be fixed.

Also, we've (the Fedora Board and I) have talked about actually "shipping" the 
full tree for each arch.  We accomplish this for i386, x86_64, and ppc by 
nature of those composes, but we don't for ppc64.  Just because we (Fedora) 
made one decision about what to or not to ship ppc64 doesn't mean that should 
be the same decision for anybody basing a distribution off of Fedora.  They 
should have equal access to the binary packages that fall out of our 
buildsystem as we do, and that generally means shipping them in a directory.  
During rawhide we continue doing the ppc64 directory of just 64bit packages, 
at release time we ship a directory of them, and we continue to populate an 
updates directory for it.  This feels like the responsible thing to do, and 
it only takes up a bit more space since we'd be building them anyway due to 
ppc(64) being a primary arch.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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