----- "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: | On 05/21/2010 11:05 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > So what is it that you need? Just for someone like me to actually | run it? What would be required if I wanted to maintain my own build | and keep it up to date as an un-official copy? | | Yes, when I did the bootstrap - I had interest from 3 people, 1 of | whom | then changed jobs and his workplace dropped the ia64 cluster and moved | | to x86_64, the second guy had 1 ia64 machine which developed a problem | | and they didnt think its worth fixing it. I've not heard from the | third | chap since. So not sure what is going on. My machine is not under a support contract from SGI, but also it is in full working condition. In its current state I would go through a graceful degradation if hardware were to fail and keep it running as long as I can. I have lots of spare parts. ;) | > I'm interested in getting involved and contributing back. Of course | I'm also not sure how much work is involved just yet. | | There isn't really that much work involved - not nearly as much as | powerpc/powerpc64 effort. If you are going to put in the effort, it | might be worth doing something semi official - as long as we can | retain | the general build and distro policy of / for CentOS and we can get to | a | state were we track build packages from i386 / x86-64. | Alright, I'm willing to commit some time, but before diving in, as a general rough overview, what type of timeframe are we looking at to maintain a port? 5-10 hours a day, week, month? | There is a build machine hosted in the UK ( its a dell 2950 with 2 | ia64 | 1.4Ghz - couple of gigs of ram and is on a fairly good network ). So | we | would need to get together atleast another machine for testing | purposes. | I'm guessing you already have some kit in place, which might be usable | ? | Yup, as described and fully operational. I could get other hardware too. | How much of time are you really going to put into this ? I dont mean | to | sound patronising, but it would to be good to work with someone who | has | some level of commitment. Given that I have no personal interest in | ia64, and no hardware of my own that is ia64, and that rhel6 isn't | going | to have a ia64 tree[1]; We really dont want to be in a situation | wherein | we put something out, and then struggle to keep things moving | along.[2] | I totally agree and I wouldn't want to put the project into that situation. I have the hardware here running 4.8. I would like to run 5.5 and keep these machines in production for as long as possible. I don't mind work and I'd like to try. | - KB | | [1]: does'nt mean we cant do one | | [2]: within reason. No one expects anyone to commit on contract, 10 | hrs | a week for 5 years. But it should not be a case of only putting this | effort in through the summer holidays, or a 'quiet phase at work' | etc. This is not at all my intention. I want to keep it going as long as my hardware is running. | PS: try not top posting Sorry. ;) -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html