I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started.
Thanks, Ray Hand
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Hand, Ray wrote:
I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started.
Are you already able to rebuild CentOS5 packages in in one of the guests ? Because from the technical point of view, there is little holding you back from rebuilding packages for s390.
I do not know what the best way is to go forward and bootstrap a build environment. Either you could start off from a RHEL5 install, or you could do a CentOS4 installation, use that to prepare the CentOS5 packages and environment. And use that to bootstrap a CentOS5 build environment to rebuild those packages.
Maybe Pasi Pirhonen could help you with the technical details or some scripts to automate that.
I would promote an s390 SIG that brings together all interested parties for a CentOS5 s390 build (as well as supporting to older s390 releases).
What we need most is for people to take the lead, help out or organise a team. I know there has been interest in an s390 build from different people so no doubt if there is a framework there will be people to join.
There is some documentation wrt. Special Interest Groups at:
http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup
but we need a developer to support this initiative. I could do that but I lack the knowledge that real developers do :) So I think you are better of talking to one of the developer.
Anyone ?
Dag Wieers wrote:
I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started.
Is one of those centos-4 ? thats the best place to start. get a minimal centos-4 install setup. I can then work with your and get the bootstrap stuff for centos-5 on there. ( I presume its c5 you are interested in helping with, since c4 is already there ).
What we need most is for people to take the lead, help out or organise a team. I know there has been interest in an s390 build from different people so no doubt if there is a framework there will be people to join.
There is some documentation wrt. Special Interest Groups at:
I am not sure what we would achieve with a SIG at this stage, lets say when there are 10 people contributing to the s390 effort we can move away from this mailing list to one dedicated to -devel-s390. howse that ?
OK, I can install C4 on one of my linux systems. Where do I go from there?
I have little to no experience with building the packages or the kernel. I currently have centos 4.5 on my 2 production systems, and on my other 2 I have one with TAO linux and one with a minimal Debian linux.
I have done the typical configure, make, make install and used yum but I'm not sure how to approach an entire distro build. How do you guys approach a distrubion build? Is there some order or methodology in building one?
Thanks, Ray Hand
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:52 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Interest in assisting with the Centos s390 disto
Dag Wieers wrote:
I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started.
Is one of those centos-4 ? thats the best place to start. get a minimal centos-4 install setup. I can then work with your and get the bootstrap stuff for centos-5 on there. ( I presume its c5 you are interested in helping with, since c4 is already there ).
What we need most is for people to take the lead, help out or organise
a team. I know there has been interest in an s390 build from different
people so no doubt if there is a framework there will be people to
join.
There is some documentation wrt. Special Interest Groups at:
I am not sure what we would achieve with a SIG at this stage, lets say when there are 10 people contributing to the s390 effort we can move away from this mailing list to one dedicated to -devel-s390. howse that ?
-- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
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Hand, Ray wrote:
OK, I can install C4 on one of my linux systems. Where do I go from there?
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OK, I have a s390x CentOS 4.5 up and running under VM. Its current on maintenance and now I am ready to start on the CentOS 5.x What are my next steps? Is there doc somewhere?
Thanks Ray Hand
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:52 PM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Interest in assisting with the Centos s390 disto
Dag Wieers wrote:
I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390 disto. I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM guests. How do I get started.
Is one of those centos-4 ? thats the best place to start. get a minimal centos-4 install setup. I can then work with your and get the bootstrap stuff for centos-5 on there. ( I presume its c5 you are interested in helping with, since c4 is already there ).
What we need most is for people to take the lead, help out or organise
a team. I know there has been interest in an s390 build from different
people so no doubt if there is a framework there will be people to
join.
There is some documentation wrt. Special Interest Groups at:
I am not sure what we would achieve with a SIG at this stage, lets say when there are 10 people contributing to the s390 effort we can move away from this mailing list to one dedicated to -devel-s390. howse that ?
-- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
Hand, Ray wrote:
OK, I have a s390x CentOS 4.5 up and running under VM. Its current on maintenance and now I am ready to start on the CentOS 5.x What are my next steps? Is there doc somewhere?
Thanks Ray Hand
hi,
next step - get mock-0.6.13 setup on there, and get the basic packages needed for the buildroots done. I shall post a list of the minimal set you need today
OK, more stupid questions. Where do I get mock from (tried a yum install and that didn't work) and where do I get the source packages from?
Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:51 AM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Interest in assisting with the Centos s390 disto
Hand, Ray wrote:
OK, I have a s390x CentOS 4.5 up and running under VM. Its current on
maintenance and now I am ready to start on the CentOS 5.x What are my next steps? Is there doc somewhere?
Thanks Ray Hand
hi,
next step - get mock-0.6.13 setup on there, and get the basic packages needed for the buildroots done. I shall post a list of the minimal set you need today
-- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
Hand, Ray wrote:
OK, more stupid questions. Where do I get mock from (tried a yum install and that didn't work) and where do I get the source packages from?
there should be a mock src. on mirror.centos.org/centos/5/
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