[CentOS-devel] CentOS-7 on PowerPC

Thu Jun 12 11:54:12 UTC 2014
Timo Schöler <timo at riscworks.net>

On 06/12/2014 12:22 PM, thus Karanbir Singh spake:

> Hi,

Hi,

> On 06/12/2014 06:13 AM, Timo Schöler wrote:
>> at the moment I can provide a Power5+ machine (besides that, an older
>> IntelliStation 275, which features a Power4+ and thus might be plain too
>> old), with perspectively another Power6+-based machine, soon.
> 
> So, we have enough to do the builds - what we need are people to do the
> tracking of buildlogs, help with the bootstrap for ppc ( ppc64 is mostly
> good, and we can import noarch from x86 builds ), and ideally we need
> some of these people to have local hardware to test on, since thats not
> something we can provide on.

given that my RHEL 7 iso boots on that 285. I'll check it. Had some
issues last time I tried.

>> Last year I started to rebuild RHEL 6 SRPMs on my Power5+ machine,
>> however, due to lack of spare time, I came to a point where efforts stopped.
> 
> yeah, same same. How are you placed for time at the moment ?

Short. Guess from Monday on it will be better.

Timo