is thunderbird available for F17? Thanks for the tips, I've built jsoncpp, so I have a valid build environment to start with at least. Time for bed now...
Dave
On 3 December 2012 22:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ffmpeg* builds (I've done so in the past) but there are some circularOn 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.
deps which need hacking about. You won't need to deal with that soon
with rpmfusion for ARM.
Thunderbird is already built and available (I'll look at the F-18
>> > - 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.
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
David A Rusling
CTO, Linaro
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