On Thursday 08 March 2007 10:34:59 am Oliver Falk wrote: > Am 2007-03-05 20:52, Oliver Falk schrieb: > > Sergey Tikhonov schrieb: > > [ ... ] > > >> Thanks to RedHat who accept patches for Alpha. > > Hm. They do? Great. However. When core is opened for everyone, I hope > that AC folks will join the community and get (write) access to glibc, > xorg, ... If all alpha-specific things get %ifarch-ed, it shouldn't > interfere with anything. > > To have all alpha specific patches in the fedora repository would be > great. Maybe RH/FI (Fedora Infrastructure) is able to add alpha-builders > to their infrastructure!? That's why I added them CC: :-) > > At least from plague I know it's possible to add passive builders to the > list. This means *we* (people who own (spare) alpha machines)) can > install machines with plague or whatever it will be named then, > available to the FI team for building. > > I also guess it will not be too hard to add the idea of passive builders > to the new koji (if it hasn't been coded yet). And well. If something > doesn't build on alpha, it - of course - shouldn't break the 'normal' > cycle (i386, x86_64, ppc(?))... > > For me questionable points are: Do we also want extras? Or only core? > Will Red Hat support this idea? Will Fedora Board/Fedora Infrastructure > support this idea? > > Who votes? Maybe Fedora Board? > We Are planing on adding secondary Archs right now sparc and ia64 are planned alpha if there is a team to support the arch. that want to work with fedora. Secondary arches will get things built automatically when built for a primary arch. Don't forget there is no longer a core/extras distinction. only fedora. Aurora currently has core and extras for SPARC. the idea is already out there. the second phase of koji will be adding secondary archs. -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
