[CentOS-devel] Interested in IA64 build

[Karanbir Singh]

Hi,

On 05/21/2010 06:31 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> I have a couple IA64 units powered off which can move to a
> datacenter and go live

That will come in handy for testing.

> The question I really have is -- it is unlikely that this,
> ppc, ppc64, and sparc [and the s390x build I have been
> working on privately] have general appeal that should
> 'clutter' the mirrors in general. An 'optional' approach on
> these items seems 'fairer' as to disk real estate for them

yes, I dont think we will have nearly as much traffic on these arch's to 
merit putting them on the main mirror system.

> Probably the CentOS infrastructure team need to discuss this
> as to where reference 'side architecture' CentOS builds will
> 'live', outside the general mirroring

good point, I've added it to the list of things.

> Once I have a bootstrap into CentOS 5, and then 6 as time
> indicates, it may well be possible to 'wire' a ground up
> rebuild on the current CentOS builder and testing process, and
> any future builds into that current process

Sounds good! There is some work that Ray has been doing as well, and I 
think we should have install media for centos-5 out from there in the 
next few days. Let me collect packages and put them on dev.c.o. But you 
raise an interesting point w.r.t 5 and 6 - at this stage, is it worth 
considering 6 to be a more productive target than 5 for arch's that will 
be supported through to 6 ( ie, not ia64 ) ?

> The unit also 'tweets' its progress at
>           http://twitter.com/buildmonbot

nice!

- KB