On 2016-04-27 00:51, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 04/26/2016 09:57 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> We've been working with the Fedora folks to try to get an EPEL build >> for >> AArch64 for some time now. I believe it's still a few months out from >> being 'official', but we can see about doing an interim build for epel >> and producing a temporary epel build repo that can be transitioned to >> 'official'. >> >> ... >> Our builders have 8-16GB of ram, so shouldn't be an issue. I know one >> 'mad scientist' type who used swap over iscsi for his initial arm >> build >> on the odroid-c1 a few months back. > > Thanks, Jim. I did get GNURadio to build, by putting 4GB of swap on > the eMMC. Although swap on iscsi sounds cool, and is definitely > creative! Swapping to a file over NFS has been supported for decades. That's what I had to do when building RedSleeve EL6 on machines that all had ~ 500MB of RAM. Unfortunately, building on NFS was causing spurious build failures due to self-tests on some of the packages, but 5 years ago there weren't any alternatives. Gordan