OOo PPC suport. [patchset !!]

[Guy M. Streeter]

In 
http://people.redhat.com/streeter/
you'll find some rpms that will make an upgrade go more smoothly.
A version of yum that doesn't look in the ppc64 arch for ppc rpms.
A version of mkinitrd that doesn't require ppc64-utils.
A version of fedora-release for ppc.

With these installed (and a bit of manual labor), I upgraded my YDL3
iMac to rawhide.
Except for the kernel.

--Guy

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:07, Balint Cristian wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:37, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Once upon a time at band camp Sat, 1 Nov 2003 1:58 pm, Balint Cristian wrote:
> > > On Friday 31 October 2003 20:21, Balint Cristian wrote:
> > > > Will be an openoffice.org for ppc too ?
> > >
> > > 	I have the full patch over .spec plus some ppc aware patches
> > > wich make fedora's openoffice.org-1.1.0-4-src.rpm to build and work
> > > for me on latest ppc-rawhide on my ibook.
> >
> > Just curious  how you installed on  a ppc machine. did you start with
> > yellow dog and upgrade to rawhide via yum or is there ppc iso's out there? 
> > i have a 400mhz G3  with 420 MB ram  and have yellow dog on it currently
> > but would love to put Fedora on it.  im thinking of setting rawhide to my
> > yum.conf and running yum update.  what do you think?
> 
> 	Yes, it is very possible, i have an poor ibook at 300Mhz and keeped up to date since 
> half year.
> 	Olso seen on redhat-mail lists guys who are using ppc rawhide tree in the past when was no such ting like fedora
> was only the RH rawhide (check mailing list history).
> 
> 	RH pack for IBM mainframes boxes thay are not aware of macs, but the tree is very
> usable on macs too as userland.
> 
> >
> > Matthias  just curious if your yellow dog packages will work with fedora? 
> > i guess they should.  any ideas on a good way to proceed?
> 
> Huhh, story, to clarify my HOWTO: 
> 
> 	Half year ago have YDL-2.? than step by step I rpm -Uvh (no yum/repos at that time) packages from
> rawhide except these very mac specific packages:
> 
> kernel- (unexistent in rawhide)
> initscripts-
> gpm-
> pmud- (unexistent in rawhide)
> 
> 	In reset _everything_ is upgradable no YDL will broke if these 4 are kept original
> and untouched from YDL.
> 
> 	Now can't use yum, I am always afraid to not broke these 4 packages (practicaly 2->
> initscript and gpm), i trick yum by pass exactly what want to update never do something like "yum update", olso
> I selfmaintain gpm+initscripts by recompile it from YDL src.rpm but increase the version number
> to trick yum (ugly dirty method), than i can "yum update" the whole and no breakage happen.
> 
> 	If someone know how to config yum to not upgrade specific packages will be nice 
> will save from dirty thing !
> 
> 	As last clarify, exept these two package i have no YDL originated .rpm on my mac,
> i thing if want try Fedora i suggest to upgrade _everything_ not just half, i dont know
> how will work with mixture of Fedora/YDL, big booboo will not be but something like
> icon disapearing and menu disapearing in KDE stuff can happen. 
> 
> 
> You can start, play if want :)
> 
> Cristian.
> 
> PS:
> 	I forgot to suplly binary OOo-1.1.0-4.ppc.rpm's but intentionaly because of bandwith, if someone request,
> tell me (it will take a while to upload somewhere), but latest rawhide is required otherwise not work !
> 	
> 
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> >
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