On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:03 AM, David Rusling <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter, > what's been confusing me (amongst other things) is that system->add/remove > software does not, for example show LibreOffice. Instead it shows a bunch > of plug-ins, fonts etc. So "yum install libreoffice" works, but I cannot > see "libreoffice" under installed softtware. Strange. This is more to do > with unfamiliarity with Fedora. I'll stick to apt-get, err yum... Ah, OK, I'm not sure the state of that as I think I've used it maybe 5 times on x86. Peter > On 3 December 2012 23:33, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:10 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > Peter, >> > 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... >> >> Yes, although I'm not sure what the latest built version is. I need to >> fix a kernel problem to ublock some builds. I think TB 16 is there, >> you should just be able to do "yum install thunderbird" >> >> Of the 12K source packages, a lot more binary, in F17+ we're only >> missing around 300 in total so if it's in mainline Fedora and it's not >> x86 specific or some of the more strange packges (ada, D, fpc and a >> few others) it'll likely just be a "yum install" away. Testing and >> feedback of everything and anything gladly welcomed... both good and >> bad :) >> >> Peter >> >> > Dave >> > >> > >> > On 3 December 2012 22:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > David A Rusling >> > CTO, Linaro > > > > > -- > David A Rusling > CTO, Linaro _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
