On Maw, 2004-01-06 at 21:16, Alex deVries wrote:
> The one thing I find a little disappointing of late is that there's no
> distribution that is:
> a) RPM-based
> b) for s390
> c) kept up to date
> d) free as in beer
>
> I can get three out of four of those (Debian (bcd) , SLES8 (abc) and
> RHAS3 (abc)), but not all four. Fedora would hit all four if it were
> built for s390.
>
> Has anyone looked at this yet? I've gotten the appropriate cross
> compilers working, and was having some problems with building glibc.
The fedora packages should on the whole spit out for S/390 ok. The big
problem would be the kernel work and I imagine the installer, since
S/390 install is a bit different. But then for most users an S/390
"Here's a Fedora I installed the hard way" bootable hercules image would
be perfect I suspect.
I would a hazard a guess that something on the lines of
Build an old RH 7.2 setup on S/390
mkdir a chrooted space
rpm2cpio and hand drop a few packages in from
pub/linux/core/development/s390/fedora/...
will get you to the point you can rpm --initdb
and then throw the packages on to at least bootstrap an environment.
>From that I guess you can rebuild the FC1 or the -devel packages and
test them to taste. Understand however that right now the FC -devel
packages for S/390 appear solely as build tests for portability, so
I don't think anyone knows if they run. Certainly you'll need to roll a
kernel either from Marcelo's tree or IBM to get going.
S/390 Fedora would be fun, I'm not sure it would be useful but then
again nethack for S/390 has had a lot of downloads too 8)
Alan
