Peter, is thunderbird available for F17? Thanks for the tips, I've built jsoncpp, so I have a valid build environment to start with at least. Time for bed now...
Dave On 3 December 2012 22:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David Rusling <david.rusl...@linaro.org> > wrote: > > Peter, > > > > On 3 December 2012 22:42, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi David, > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:29 PM, David Rusling < > david.rusl...@linaro.org> > >> wrote: > >> > all, > >> > it's been a while since I've build / been involved with RPM > packages, > >> > but > >> > I now have a Samsung ARM chromebook to play with. I've installed the > >> > various rpm build tools. Questions > >> > >> Welcome back ;-) > >> > >> > - do I need to use Koji or this more of a tool for package > maintainers > >> > to > >> > build and upload packages etc? > >> > >> No, you don't need to build them with koji, it's primary role is to > >> build the official distro packages although it's possible to use it > >> for scratch builds too. The easiest way to do this locally is to do > >> "yum install fedora-packager gcc" and then run rpmdev-setuptree which > >> will setup a local rpm build env. > > > > > > Great, thanks. > > > >> > >> > >> There's a good overview here > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package > >> > >> > - do the standard Fn source RPMs include support for ARM? > >> > >> Yes. We use 100% upstream mainline Fedora src.rpms, 99% of them even > >> build on ARM ;-) > >> > >> > - anyone want a package ported to ARM? I want the Chrome web > browser, > >> > but > >> > should probably start with something simpler > >> > >> It might be that the Chromium packages that spot builds for x86 are > >> buildable for ARM, I've not tried to do so though. > >> > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium > > > > > > That's what got me looking at building source RPMs. Looking at ffmpeg*, > it > > doesn't build for ARM, various bits are missing, so may start there. > > ffmpeg* builds (I've done so in the past) but there are some circular > deps which need hacking about. You won't need to deal with that soon > with rpmfusion for ARM. > > >> > - good informational website on getting going porting packages to > ARM? > >> > >> Are you talking of packages that are in mainline Fedora or other third > >> party packages? There is work to get the rpmfusion supporting ARM, > >> this is moving forward and should be more widely available soon. > > > > > > Well, I'd also like Skype and Thunderbird for starters. > > Thunderbird is already built and available (I'll look at the F-18 > build failure in a minute for TB 17) but I'm sorry you'll need to > speak to Microsoft for the Skype one as it's closed source :-) > > Peter > -- David A Rusling CTO, Linaro
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