On Jan 27, 2018, bill-auger <[email protected]> wrote: > the scripts are based on a fedora v20 target system and require packages > from corresponding versioned repos on fedora, freedora, and also a > native blag repo - the fedora archives are still available but the > oldest available freedora repo is v25 so that had to be the minimum > target
Would you like me to dig up the Freed-ora 20 rpms and the blag-specific rpms from backups? > it would apparently not be possible to build blag (v.N+1) from a > running blag (v.N) - i mention this because arguably this does not > meet the FSDG self-hosting requirement I can imagine it would be convenient, but I guess these scripts are supposed to run within a mock buildroot or somesuch, as a last stage in building the release's live and install images. The buildroot is populated with packages that have already been built or imported, in the corresponding repositories. The rpms in there are also built within mock buildroots or equivalent, so it's all really self-hosted: the buildroots and the build host running mock can be running different versions, or even different distros. > where i last left off, i got it to progress as far as the package > loading phase when it choked on a package missing from the freedora > repos named something like: 'linux-kernel-firmware' - perhaps this is > just a renamed package - i have not looked into it any further kernel-libre-firmware used to be built as part of kernel-libre, but since 4.14-gnu (-ENOFIRMWARE) it was removed, since there was nothing left. I intend to build jxself's linux-libre-firmware to take its place, but I haven't done that yet (vacations were too short ;-( :-) However, kernel-libre-firware *is* available in the Freed-ora 25 repos: that repo was discontinued before getting any 4.14 builds. So it's weird that the package couldn't be found. Freed-ora 26 repos, OTOH, only have 4.14 builds left, so you might expect this sort of error there. You sure you tried 25, not 26 or 27? I guess whoever decides to take up blag will have to sort that out. Hopefully I'll have a newer kernel-libre-firmware in place by then... -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist|Red Hat Brasil GNU Toolchain Engineer
