On 2015-02-18 16:22, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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On 18/02/15 16:08, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2015-02-18 14:57, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 17/02/15 20:51, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2015-02-17 18:48, Howard Johnson wrote:
As a long-time Red Hat family distribution user, I've been interested in a CentOS build for ARM since the release of the originally Raspberry Pi. However, it's only with the release of RHEL 7 that a source code base that largely works on ARM has been available to CentOS [1].
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[1] RHEL6's Fedora 12/13-derived codebase largely predates the Fedora ARM effort, whereas the Fedora 19 base of RHEL 7 had an actively maintained ARM secondary architecture; fixes to Fedora packages for ARM were incorporated into Fedora proper, and RHEL 7 inherited these fixes.
Have you heard of RedSleeve? We've had an EL6 build for armv5tel for years now. All the patches that were required are on the wiki.
As I've said to you repeatedly over many years, you are welcome to come join the CentOS effort, on various ARM platforms.
I'm here, aren't I? All the heavy lifting for EL6 armv5tel and most of it for EL7 has been done and all the patches have always been published.
Gordan
<personal interest> that would be cool to see centos 7 working on raspi / arvm5tel : I have two of those and having those running c7 would be interesting :-) </personal interest>
Gordan : have you used f19 or something else to bootstrap the armv5tel build ? I see packages on your ftp site for el5, but no image that can be used on my side as a start.
I believe Jacco used F18 to bootstrap the build. Not as easy as it would have been with F19, but it worked out.
You can create the image yourself. Take a basic EL7 x86 system (minimal install), grab the list of packages from that using: rpm -qa | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//' | sort -u > packages.list
You can then feed that to yum: yum --installroot=/path/to/media `cat package.list`
Add a suitable boot loader configuration, kernel, initrd and /lib/modules/ and you should be good to go.
It's not particularly newbie friendly, but it's not very difficult, either.
Gordan