[Arm-dev] Getting started / Build machines

Thu Jul 3 10:00:38 UTC 2014
D.S. Ljungmark <spider at aanstoot.se>

Thanks for the head's up on that.

So, plan of action would be:
 * Find / prepare a F19 bootable image.
 * Install mock (git or are the packages ok?)
 * build a mock F19 starter, test compile something traditional (bash?)
 * Duplicate this environment to the various machines
 * set up nfs for compile target
 * wrap some scripts around pssh to do parallel builds

-- Am I missing something major here?
//D.S.


On 03/07/14 11:57, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> F19 is the closest to EL7, so it will make your live much
> easier for the first pass. The more you diverge, the
> fiddlier the first stage gets, and first stage is always
> the fiddliest. Stick with F19 if at all possible.
> 
> I'm looking at strapping first pass on F18 for soft-float,
> and I'm expecting it to be much less smooth.
> 
> I've been through similar with the EL6 build, and in
> retrospect I would have saved myself a fair amount of
> time if I had built the first pass on F12 rather than
> F13, and those were very similar releases.
> 
> Gordan
> 
> On 2014-07-02 21:07, D.S. Ljungmark wrote:
>> Will Fedora 20 work, or is it F19 or bust? ( the reason I'm asking is
>> that we have a functional F20 image for them. )
>>
>> mock configs would be excellent. I'll have to postpone getting it
>> running for a week or so due to the aforementioned missing
>> sysadmin-time.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   D.S.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 07/01/2014 04:22 PM, D.S. Ljungmark wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>    I have a bundle of armv7 machines here and quite some interest in
>>>> running CentOS7 on them at a point not too far into the future.
>>>
>>> nice!
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, given that we have more hardware than sysadmin-time available, 
>>>> but
>>>> can invest some of our time to this,
>>>>
>>>>   What can we do to assist / help?
>>>
>>> get a fedora19 armv7 repo up locally, write a mock config to point at
>>> it, and then run that mock builder against the centos7 srpms.
>>>
>>>> Is anyone helped by access to hardware? If so, we can set up the
>>>> machines to tftp boot and give development access to them over ssh.
>>>
>>> it might be most productive to have you just run the mock setup in a
>>> loop - if you have 20 odd machines running, the entire loop should
>>> finish fairly quickly, and just iteratively keep running till you get 
>>> a
>>> complete cycle with nothing building. Those buildlogs will then be
>>> interesting to see somewhere, the interim ones might be good to have
>>> archieved off somewhere.
>>>
>>> what we tend to do is have every iteration run its output into its own
>>> directorty, eg: c6.99.01 might be a good target number to use for the
>>> first time, then c6.99.02 for the second , and so on.
>>>
>>> it it helps,m I can get some mock configs online for you to bootstrap 
>>> from ?
>>>
>>>> Are you more helped by setting up automated build systems? If so, how 
>>>> do
>>>> I get started (Deployment guide, documentation ,what has to be 
>>>> installed
>>>> and where do I start would be welcome)
>>>
>>> we'd need to do that once we have the code is going to build and work,
>>> till then just mock by hand is most useful.
>>>
>>>> Are things in the point where it can already run and work? If so, 
>>>> where
>>>> do I find binaries / images to use and test with?
>>>
>>> there are a few build loops already run, but feel free to start again 
>>> -
>>> that way you have the complete picture, locally.
>>> - KB
>>>
>>>
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