[Spacewalk-list] s390x

[Andy_Hamberger at bnz.co.nz]

Hi Brandon


Brandon Perkins <bperkins at redhat.com> wrote on 01/10/2008 09:49:32 a.m.:

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> As Miroslav said, it should work if you build s390x RPMs from the SRPMs
> available from Spacewalk.  Eventually everything will get tested as it
> migrates into Satellite, but we would love to see it developed and
> tested in the open for the Z platform.  There is no reason it should not
> work, and if you do find issues, please report a bug.
> 
> > What are the issues preventing us to get Spacewalk onto that platform? 
I 
> > have the Ok from the Bank to work on this officially and help out and 
get 
> > a s390x spacewalk port going and share the results with the community. 

> > 
> 

Happy to start building then and reporting bugs, as I mentioned on the 
devel list I have a solid distro background and should be able to have 
something running and packages uploaded for RHEL4 in a week or so.

> Well, there are really two issues, the first issue are the same set of
> issues that keep us from getting into Fedora completely, and why we need
> to build on our own Koji instance.  Integration with the Fedora Koji
> (this is building the packages in Koji which will occur when we submit
> to Fedora) is something we definitely want to do.  The way others can
> help is by helping with:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/GettingPackagesIntoFedora
> 
> We also cannot get into Fedora until we break the Oracle dependency:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PathToPostgreSql
> 
> Feel free to help on both of these.
> 

Integrating into Kiji sounds fun. Main restriction is that being a bank 
the path to the internet is somewhat restricted.

> The other general issue is availability of Z on a public Koji instance.
> I am not really as tied into those efforts as I'd like to be, but others
> on this list may be able to speak to it.  You may also want to see how
> you can contribute to that effort at:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x
> 
> I would like to hear others chime in on this point, because we could
> similarly discuss ia64 and SPARC while we're on this topic.
> 



> > Looking forward to your thoughts ... let me know if I should post this 
on 
> > the devel mailing list.
> > 
> 
> No need unless you want to join in on any of the efforts I listed above.
>  All of which could be incredibly helpful.
> 

yes indeed I like to join, so I have send an email off to the devel list.



Andy

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