On 08/18/2014 02:36 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Some of the ones that are not quite up to date are just me not having
> had a chance to do an update build recently. Some, however, will not
> be updated further unless somebody from the community steps up to
> become a maintainer.
>
> If you take a look here:
> http://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/ModifiedPackages
> some packages are highlighted in yellow, namely kernel, glibc and gcc.
> They require significant patching to make them work on ARM and the
> 2.6.32 base kernel supports very, very few SoCs.
>
> There are other packages (e.g. biosdevname) that have introduced ARM
> incompatible assembly that will also not be updated further.
>
> So on EL6 we are stuck with those. Note that the 4 packages mentioned
> are 4 source packages which may each produce several binary packages.
That's a good list, I had not found that yet on the wiki.
I do not have a good place to compile packages, but I can manage some
rpmbuild on my spare raspberry :)
I thought of having a go at the most important patches, being labeled
Critical by RedHat.
There is now a list of three 'advisories': nss/nspr, firefox and java.
both firefox and java are probably to much for the raspberry, so I did
not test them. But you'd probably like to hear that they increased the
java version enough so that it will probably compile on arm.
So to nss/nspr:
* nspr-4.10.6-1.el6_5.src.rpm builds without any problem
* nss-util-3.16.1-1.el6_5.src.rpm builds without any problem
* nss-3.16.1-4.el6_5.src.rpm FAILS 6 tests, something about expired
certificates
=> maybe out of date cacerts?
* ca-certificates-2014.1.98-65.0.el6_5.src.rpm builds without any problem
* nss-3.16.1-4.el6_5.src.rpm again FAILS 6 tests, something about
expired certificates
=> aha, there is a certificate in the SRPM that is expired
(PayPalEE.cert) this is fixed
with a new cert in CentOS7, so include that cert in nss
* nss-3.16.1-4.el6_5.src.rpm builds without any problem
however nss won't install:
Error: Package: nss-3.16.1-4.el6.armv5tel (/nss-3.16.1-4.el6.armv5tel)
Requires: nss-softokn(armv6l-32) >= 3.14.3
huh? I have a version 3.14.3 installed, but why is it asking after armv6?
anyway, then try and rebuild nss-softokn:
* nss-softokn-3.14.3-10.el6_5.src.rpm builds without any problem
and now nss will install.
summary:
the nss-* and nspr srpms will all compile with one minor hicup (the
expired PayPalEE cert)
I do not understand why nss requires an armv6 ?
If there is interest in the resulting rpms, I can upload them to
cdn.opensxce.org. <http://cdn.opensxce.org> but personally I think it
would be smarter to rebuild them with a more standardized method, than
rpmbuild on my spare raspberry.
Regards,
Jacco
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