On 3 December 2012 22:42, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great, thanks.
That's what got me looking at building source RPMs. Looking at ffmpeg*, it doesn't build for ARM, various bits are missing, so may start there.
Well, I'd also like Skype and Thunderbird for starters.
Dave
Hi David,
Welcome back ;-)
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:29 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> all,
> it's been a while since I've build / been involved with RPM packages, but
> I now have a Samsung ARM chromebook to play with. I've installed the
> various rpm build tools. Questions
No, you don't need to build them with koji, it's primary role is to
> - do I need to use Koji or this more of a tool for package maintainers to
> build and upload packages etc?
build the official distro packages although it's possible to use it
for scratch builds too. The easiest way to do this locally is to do
"yum install fedora-packager gcc" and then run rpmdev-setuptree which
will setup a local rpm build env.
Great, thanks.
There's a good overview here
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
Yes. We use 100% upstream mainline Fedora src.rpms, 99% of them even
> - do the standard Fn source RPMs include support for ARM?
build on ARM ;-)
It might be that the Chromium packages that spot builds for x86 are
> - anyone want a package ported to ARM? I want the Chrome web browser, but
> should probably start with something simpler
buildable for ARM, I've not tried to do so though.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium
That's what got me looking at building source RPMs. Looking at ffmpeg*, it doesn't build for ARM, various bits are missing, so may start there.
Are you talking of packages that are in mainline Fedora or other third
> - good informational website on getting going porting packages to ARM?
party packages? There is work to get the rpmfusion supporting ARM,
this is moving forward and should be more widely available soon.
Well, I'd also like Skype and Thunderbird for starters.
Dave
Peter
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