[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

Sun Jan 19 04:24:20 UTC 2014
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 01/18/2014 11:09 PM, David Carollo wrote:
> Red sleeve is an ARM port.
> http://www.redsleeve.org

Home page is static from back in '12, but I see mailing list has some 
activity. I have a pogoplug that has f18 port on it, I will see if I can 
get redsleeve on it. But won't be for a couple weeks.

> On Jan 18, 2014 3:28 PM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
>>> Complicated is a good word...
>>>
>>>>    But, the bigger question is where it leaves us if
>>>> they just decide to quit after assimilating most of the related
>>>> systems under a build ecosystem that no one else can reproduce easily.
>>>>
>>> There is no secret sauce to the buildsystem.  It's not like we're
>>> converting TRS-80 Model II TRSDOS files to LS-DOS or anything here,
>>> where things aren't well-documented or completely undocumented.
>> Hey, I could have done that with my eyes closed and in z80 code.  But
>> those were simpler times.
>>
>>> I have reproduced to an extent the buildsystem for CentOS 5 on IA64, and
>>> with a little nudging in the right direction by some folks I was able to
>>> figure it out.  The hard part, as as been said I don't know how many
>>> times, is getting the x.0's first tree's dependency tree and build
>>> sequence correct with the buildroot populated with a good starter set of
>>> packages (and this is very well documented in the Fedora documentation).
>>>
>>> Anyway, the current work with seven.centos.org is a really good start.
>> I hope someone manages an ARM build eventually.  It would be fun to
>> play with cheap hardware and reliable code.
>>
>> --
>>     Les Mikesell
>>      lesmikesell at gmail.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
>> CentOS at centos.org
>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>