Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (253 mails)

["Mark E Mason" <mark.e.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

> From: Marcus Rueckert [mailto:mrueckert@xxxxxxx] 
> 
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 23:26, Mark E Mason wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm strongly considering attempting a build of OpenSUSE for an
> > architecture it does not support yet.  I have other Linuxes such as
> > Debian and Gentoo running on this hardware, but not 
> OpenSUSE.  There was
> > a similar thread last month regarding SPARC.
> 
> what architecture would that be?

MIPS.  Probably o32 to begin with, but progressing to n32 and/or n64.

> > There's the usual bootstrapping issues to work through (I 
> think I can
> > handle those) - but, where should I look for the scripts/programs to
> > drive the top-level configure and build of a distribution?  
> I've found
> > the BuildServer under svn - but it's not clear to me if 
> that's the right
> > tool for this, or if it's overkill or ??? (or if it contains the
> > distribution configuration info).
> >
> > Any thoughts or pointers would be much appreciated.
> 
> build is doing the actual build job see
> http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/
> 
> the scheduler is not opensource yet.

Thanks - I'll start there.

> 
> do you want to add gentoo support?

Well, Gentoo is already up and running on the board(s) I care about.  What I'm really interested in is getting OpenSUSE up on the boards - probably using Gentoo or Debian as a bootstrap system.

Thanks,
Mark

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