On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter, > > On 3 December 2012 22:42, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> >> 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 >> >> Welcome back ;-) >> >> > - do I need to use Koji or this more of a tool for package maintainers >> > to >> > build and upload packages etc? >> >> No, you don't need to build them with koji, it's primary role is to >> 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 >> >> > - do the standard Fn source RPMs include support for ARM? >> >> Yes. We use 100% upstream mainline Fedora src.rpms, 99% of them even >> build on ARM ;-) >> >> > - anyone want a package ported to ARM? I want the Chrome web browser, >> > but >> > should probably start with something simpler >> >> It might be that the Chromium packages that spot builds for x86 are >> 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. ffmpeg* builds (I've done so in the past) but there are some circular deps which need hacking about. You won't need to deal with that soon with rpmfusion for ARM. >> > - good informational website on getting going porting packages to ARM? >> >> Are you talking of packages that are in mainline Fedora or other third >> 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. Thunderbird is already built and available (I'll look at the F-18 build failure in a minute for TB 17) but I'm sorry you'll need to speak to Microsoft for the Skype one as it's closed source :-) Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
