On 03/08/2011 09:04 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:01:02AM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Niels de Vos wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> it looks like not all Fedora 13 packages can be build on ARM yet. For
>>> some packages there have been tickets opened at the Trac instance:
>>> - https://fedorahosted.org/arm/report/1
>>>
>>> I'd like to help out with building these packages, but am not a
>>> 'proven packager' [1], so I can not fix the issues completely and rely
>>> on the package maintainer or other proven packagers. What I am doing
>>> right now is filing bugs against the packages that can not be build on
>>> ARM. I'm including pointers to the issue and propose fixes, like:
>>> - Bug 682515 - libgda-4.1.4-1.fc13.src.rpm does not rebuild on Fedora 13 
>>> for ARM
>>> - Bug 682538 - geos-3.2.1-1.fc13.src.rpm does not build on Fedora-13 for ARM
>>>
>>> These bugs are blockers for the ARMTracker which make them easily findable:
>>> - 
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=245418&hide_resolved=1
>>
>> We're tracking build failures as bugs now? Really??
>
> Tracking build failures is probably overkill as long as not all packages
> are expected to build on ARM.

Aren't all the packages expected to build on ARM? Which ones aren't 
expected to build?

> Tracking patches in Bugzilla that fix
> build failures is a good idea, though. This allows maintainers to
> inspect patches and apply them.
>
> I guess once Fedora-ARM is completely working, all non-working packages
> should be tracked as mentioned in the wiki:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures#Tracker_Bugs

That seems contradictory. Once it is completely working, that implies 
all packages are working, in which case there's nothing to fix/track.

Gordan
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