[fedora-arm] ARM Koji Downtime - Proposed: 2012-03-21 1300-2100 UTC

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
We need to do some testing on the buildsystem to iron out a few NFS issues and do some physical work. I propose taking the farm offline on Wednesday from 1300-2100 UTC (0800-1700 EDT), any objections? -Chris ___ arm mailing list

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Koji Downtime - Proposed: 2012-03-21 1300-2100 UTC

2012-03-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mar 19, 2012 8:41 PM, Chris Tyler ch...@tylers.info wrote: We need to do some testing on the buildsystem to iron out a few NFS issues and do some physical work. I propose taking the farm offline on Wednesday from 1300-2100 UTC (0800-1700 EDT), any objections? Fine with me. It would be

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
First stab at a few answers-- On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 16:46 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: How are ARM-specific issues such as legacy alignment problems to be addressed? ARM v7 systems have hardware fixup for alignment issues, just as x86 does. ARM v5 systems can do fixup in software with a CPU

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-19 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/19/2012 09:30 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: Being a PA carries the obligation that all packages in Fedora will be available. The proposed avenue of making broken packages temporarily excludearch is questionable and needs work. The thing that worries me about the excludearch is that there is

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 21:38 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: 1. Packages that are truly x86 specific do not need to be made to work on ARM. And the packages that depend upon them hopefully don't either, but there's going to be some issues there. Note that this goes both ways - there are a

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM Primary FESCO discussion results, round 1

2012-03-19 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 03/19/2012 04:46 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: How do packagers test and resolve failures on ARM if they don't own an ARM device? I like Chris's suggestion of the simulator- that's good coverage. I'd also support providing login hosts to... somewhere. Seneca? Spare systems in PHX? I'm not