On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:43:48 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote: > Hi, > > Am 06.01.2014 01:15, schrieb Jim Henderson: >> Did you start with the image at http://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/linux/ >> opensuse/ - or is there another image I should be looking at? > > You should please be looking at the official images on OBS: > > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/ devel:ARM:13.1:Contrib:RaspberryPi > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/ devel:ARM:Factory:Contrib:RaspberryPi
Thanks, I'll have a look at those. > Similarly, thanks and questions are best directed to the opensuse-arm > mailing list since several other contributors deserve credit, too > (Marcus Schäfer, Guillaume Gardet, David Sterba, ..., plus the usual > suspects Dirk Müller, Alexander Graf and Adrian Schröter) and may be > able to help you more quickly. I just posted a status report there the > other day [0] as part of our joint post-13.1 testing efforts: Apart from > Kiwi not yet resizing the partition of the image during first boot, > JeOS-raspberrypi image in Factory was looking pretty good now! > There's also an XFCE-raspberrypi image defined (assuming FXCE was a > typo?), but that package still has a few unresolved dependencies, such > as Firefox. Absolutely thanks to them - and also for mentioning the arm list. I'll make sure I'm subscribed to it, as I certainly do want to get involved - at least as a user, but probably more when things settle down after we move next month. > Larry, if you can help update the kernel-raspberrypi package in above > :Factory:Contrib repository from 3.11 to your 3.12, that would probably > be appreciated by other users! > >> The repo this image uses is missing a few libraries, > > Jim, if you find libraries are missing, please mention which repo you > are using and which library you are missing. You might be: > ...using an outdated repository, > ...facing soft-/hard-float or armv5/armv6 ABI RPM incompatibilities, > ...experiencing failing package builds that no one has fixed yet, > ...needing a library that's not yet packaged at all, > ...needing a package where armv6hl builds have not been enabled yet, > or any number of other reasons we can only guess without further info. Yeah, I plan to do that, probably when I take a few minutes out from working tomorrow. :) I know more specific information is needed, I just wanted to make sure I was starting with a build/repo that made sense before I started getting too deeply into it. > Please understand that SUSE has no enterprise customers for the > Raspberry Pi, so this work is dependent on individual contributions, > with people like you hacking on this in their spare time. Understood. It makes sense there wouldn't really be a commercial interest in the platform, at least at this stage. It is more of a hobbyist platform. > Testing new images and providing feedback to opensuse-arm as well as > updating or adding Wiki pages [1] are easy ways for you to contribute. > Keeping track of which packages are failing [2, 3] for what reasons is > another, if you don't want to get your hands dirty and actually help > with fixing or updating packages yourself yet. ;) I like getting my hands dirty, haven't done so in a while, though, as I've had lots of other stuff on my plate. But as happens, a new toy tickles that interest somewhat (I'm also a ham radio operator, though I'm mostly inactive these days, for similar reasons). It might be something I can use to revive my interest there, too. :) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
