-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Greg Snyder spake: > Hi all, Hi Greg, > I'm trying to get a CentOS 5 port started for PowerPC. I saw there was > some email back in February about this, but did not know what progress > had been made. Does anyone have any news? I think that was my mail... Well, could be, at least. I started to think of it in December, but didn't make any progress (except adding another IBM Power 285 machine to the already existing Power 275 I get, see http://wiki.centos.org/TimoSchoeler). > I'm most interested in > 32-bit, with the hope of eventually running it on some Apple (G4 and G5) > desktops, as well as on some embedded PowerPC boards (mostly amcc 460ex > based). So I'd be hoping to build with some pretty generic target > options so the RPMs would be useful in the most places. For me it would be the 64bit stuff. I do have a G4 machine at home, but it isn't set up ATM. Also, I'd really like to have it running on IBM Power... especially as there *exists* an official upstream port. > Are there tools, scripts or techniques used to do the x86 RPMs build > that could be leveraged? I looked around on the CentOS website and > wiki, but could not find docs or sources for this. Any pointers on > this, or just generally how the x86 build/build server is bootstrapped, > and the x86 RPMs are produced, would be greatly appreciated. Same problem here; I asked in IRC yesterday, but noone of the PowerPC guys was there, as it seemed (if there are any, that is). > Given my previous somewhat painful experience with autoconf-related > cross-build issues, my first thought was to build the bulk of the RPMs > natively on PowerPC, rather than x86 to PowerPC cross-build. I have a > few PowerPC boxes (currently running Fedora 12), including a quad core > 2.5GHz G5, that I'd be happy to share with others interested in getting > a CentOS PowerPC port done. I'm very interested in this. However, even more interesting (and very port-specific) would be the stuff surrounding the topic 'how to create bootable media'... Another idea would be to create a wiki page for gathering information on getting up and running the PPC port. (I'll ask Ralph to create one. :) > I'd be grateful for any tips, help or direction. > > Thanks, > Greg Cheers, Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL9kNNfg746kcGBOwRAgSvAJ9LPLeHv3/giKGwXVqLNJDumivY3wCgj7M+ 7Fm054+8J+c9WpagJBLkzQc= =48Dl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----