Karanbir Singh wrote:
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
I am not sure what you mean by CentOS-5 IA64 port being 5.1 ??? All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle.
This was more a question of whether the CentOS 5.0 build would just be skipped in place of a 5.1 build since there has not yet been a CentOS 5.0 build for IA64 released yet. So with that said "All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle" isn't really all that accurate. :)
Anyway, once we get the release out - the updates on IA64 will track i386/x86_64 very closely ( prolly in sync ). This does depend on hardware availability. At the moment we have 2 cores churning out the _entire_ IA64 stuff. And we dont really have failover capability. So if someone has IA64 h/w around that they want to donate, it would be much welcome.
Trust me, if my SGI Altix machines weren't being used right now to do real work I would happily allow you to build on them. I'm sure that 96 processors and 96GB of memory could be of some use. If there is a way that they could be I would be happy to schedule my own time on them to help out.
err ? There will be a 5.1 IA64 release within 2 to 3 weeks of i686/x86_64 going out to the mirrors. We have IA64 availability within the buildsystem and tracking buildqueues.
I am saying 2 to 3 weeks, just so we get the bandwidth to test this thing a bit.
No problems, and if I can help out in any way please don't hesitate to contact me off list.