[EPEL-devel] EPEL for z Systems s390x
Hello,
I would like to suggest a great addition to the EPEL, the z Systems
architecture (s390x).
I have seem a great number of requests around EPEL for z Systems, its
definitely a growing platform around Linux as IBM keeps offering better and
more efficient servers that are basically a datacenter in a box - which is a
great way for customers to reduce costs by consolidating Linux workloads.
EPEL repository to s390x can be a great way to allow customers to try an
unsupported package that still not available to RHEL on z Systems - that can in
time mature, and can skip some of the processes to make into the RHEL for z
Systems distro.
The idea is to offer more technology options (Fedora Packages) to customers
using RHEL on z Systems - this can flag us what packages are customers really
interested into for RHEL on z Systems that are still not available in the
Enterprise distro.
Please let’s brainstorm this suggestion here, IBMers, community members, Fedora
members, RedHatter, you are all welcome to join this discussion.
Thank you,
Kind Regards,
Filipe Miranda
fmira...@redhat.com
Global Lead for Red Hat Products on IBM z Systems and Power Systems
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Re: [EPEL-devel] EPEL for z Systems s390x
On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 09:11:17 AM Dan Callaghan wrote: Excerpts from Bryan Chan's message of 2015-06-24 08:29 +10:00: Dan Horák d...@danny.cz wrote on 2015-06-23 02:31:23 PM: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:52:41 -0400 Filipe Miranda fmira...@redhat.com wrote: This can be addressed maybe by IBM, by offering build systems to help developers test their packages. Ack, that's something for IBM, from Red Hat side it would require providing RHEL for System z subscriptions to such devel systems. Currently we have one public guest running Fedora available to the community, so it should be solvable. In addition to real HW there are 2 solutions capable running current Linux distributions under emulation. Dan, could you elaborate on the emulation aspect? Do you mean IBM zPDT and Hercules? I am curious if you are using emulation in the build farm today. IBM is currently engaging open-source software companies to encourage support for the platform. IBM partners can essentially get access to hardware for development purposes at a discount. For the community, we have a program called Community Development System for Linux on z, whereby open source projects can sign up for free access to Linux guests on our z Systems (for a limited time): http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/support/community.html During registration, you can request a RHEL installation. I am not sure whether it comes with a RHN subscription. Other community hardware access options are now being considered, and I hope something more streamlined can be announced soon. One possibility is to make some z/VM guests available to approved Fedora contributors using beaker.fedoraproject.org, the same way that Red Hat engineers can use our internal Beaker instance to reserve z/VM guests. I would love to see the arches that people don't have at home, like ppc64 and aarch64, on beaker.fedoraproject.org too. The only big unresolved issue with beaker.fedoraproject.org right now is how to hook up FAS authentication. I haven't had a chance to figure that out yet. A bigger issue would be having a z series machine that can be tied into fedora's beaker instance. Considering that there is none in Fedora space today. I do not imagine IT or Red Hat Security allowing some tunnel into the systems inside of Red Hat. Assuming we can find hardware then sure would be great. Dennis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
Re: [EPEL-devel] EPEL for z Systems s390x
Excerpts from Bryan Chan's message of 2015-06-24 08:29 +10:00: Dan Horák d...@danny.cz wrote on 2015-06-23 02:31:23 PM: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:52:41 -0400 Filipe Miranda fmira...@redhat.com wrote: This can be addressed maybe by IBM, by offering build systems to help developers test their packages. Ack, that's something for IBM, from Red Hat side it would require providing RHEL for System z subscriptions to such devel systems. Currently we have one public guest running Fedora available to the community, so it should be solvable. In addition to real HW there are 2 solutions capable running current Linux distributions under emulation. Dan, could you elaborate on the emulation aspect? Do you mean IBM zPDT and Hercules? I am curious if you are using emulation in the build farm today. IBM is currently engaging open-source software companies to encourage support for the platform. IBM partners can essentially get access to hardware for development purposes at a discount. For the community, we have a program called Community Development System for Linux on z, whereby open source projects can sign up for free access to Linux guests on our z Systems (for a limited time): http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/support/community.html During registration, you can request a RHEL installation. I am not sure whether it comes with a RHN subscription. Other community hardware access options are now being considered, and I hope something more streamlined can be announced soon. One possibility is to make some z/VM guests available to approved Fedora contributors using beaker.fedoraproject.org, the same way that Red Hat engineers can use our internal Beaker instance to reserve z/VM guests. I would love to see the arches that people don't have at home, like ppc64 and aarch64, on beaker.fedoraproject.org too. The only big unresolved issue with beaker.fedoraproject.org right now is how to hook up FAS authentication. I haven't had a chance to figure that out yet. -- Dan Callaghan dcall...@redhat.com Senior Software Engineer, Products Technologies Operations Red Hat, Inc. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
