[Arm-dev] Epel Re: Really minimal - Re: CentOS-userland 7 images : call for testers !

Fri Dec 18 14:00:06 UTC 2015
Andreas Reschke <andreas at rirasoft.de>

Am 18.12.2015 14:45, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> On 12/18/2015 08:32 AM, Andreas Reschke wrote:
>> Am 18.12.2015 14:26, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>> On 12/18/2015 07:01 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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>>>> On 18/12/15 11:56, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>> And I know I am going to need epel as well for the mailserver.
>>>>> Most, if not all that I needed last time were noarch.  A start on a
>>>>> epel7-arm would be just the noarch rpms.  I will try and dig out my
>>>>> notes on what I was up against last year doing this.
>>>>> 
>>>> So,
>>>> 
>>>> Epel for CentOS AltArch will be "interesting" .. there is no epel 
>>>> for
>>>> i686/aarch64/armhfp, and I don't think that there is a plan for 
>>>> that.
>>>> Something to consider with some Epel folks though.
>>>> If it's clear that it will never exist, we can then try to make some
>>>> resources available within the CentOS Infra (or try to make it 
>>>> happen)
>>>> to start rebuilding packages from Epel.
>>> 
>>> I believe amavisd-new (or at least many of its dependencies) is on
>>> epel, and at least in epel6 it was noarch.
>>> 
>>> And many of the roundcubemail dependencies were on epel.
>>> 
>>> So if you want a mailserver, you need stuff from epel.  Last year
>>> after some frustration and venting, I was pulling the noarch rpms 
>>> from
>>> the epel6-i386 repo mirror and doing a localinstall.  It would be 
>>> nice
>>> to start building at least the noarch from epel sooner rather than
>>> later.
>>> 
>>> Of course, I will not be replacing my current mailserver until
>>> Centos7-arm goes live.  But hopefully that is not too far off!
>>> 
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>> 
>> That would be fine. I'm also in the process to build a mailserver with 
>> the cubietruck after christmas.
> 
> z9m9z.htt-consult.com is running RSEL6 on a Cubietruck with a 320Gb HD.
> 
> For software it is using:
> 
> postfix
> mysql
> postfixadmin from sourceforge
> dovecot
> roundcubemail from roundcubemail
> spamassasin
> clamav
> amavis-new
> 
> Plus of course httpd and all the dependencies the stuff above needs.
> 
> I run a few domains with a handful or so of users.  Typical day is 5K
> emails passing through.
> 
> So this will be a test of getting a lot of packages available.
> 
> I have a pretty good set of notes from last year.  I hope to offer a
> cookbook this time around.  And then be able to leave it alone for a
> long time.
> 
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Hi Robert,
what is RSEL6? RedSleeve Linux? I can't find there a image for 
cubietruck.
I think I will take the CentOS Image from Fabian and look for the 
missing packages at RedSleeve or Fedora.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Andreas Reschke