Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011, 12:24:34 schrieb Alexander Graf:

> On 17.10.2011, at 12:01, Adrian Schröter wrote:

> > Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011, 20:29:38 schrieb Andrew Wafaa:

> > > Michal has also been able to build gtk2 on native hardware too.

> >

> > I injected gtk2 a while ago.

> >

> > I am currently injecting a texlive build from Alexander.

> >

> > > Could we add

> > > these to the list of packages to inject? When building with Qemu

> > > gtk2

> > > repeatedly causes a segfault and fails to build.

> >

> > At some point we need to fix the build or we can not ever make an ARM

> > distribution release. No matter what the reason of this failure is.

> Why not? All we need to do is to build on native hardware. I would much

> rather see people fix actual package problems than subtile QEMU bugs.

that would be also a solution, if we would have enough ARM hardware and it would also support KVM or XEN.

However, I don't see this in short term.

> In fact, I was thinking that maybe I'll write up a script that goes through

> all the "failed" packages in obs and tries to rebuild them on native

> hardware. Then we at least can build up a matrix of packages that are

> definitely QEMU bugs and we would have those packages covered by natively

> built working rpms, giving us the chance to move towards a full root fs

> that we can use to continue bootstrapping worker images.

>

> Unless of course the packages we have now are enough to get a native worker

> rolling already. Maybe it really already is. Of course the kernel is left

> to do, but we can just use the one that already runs on the boxes there.

>

>

> Alex

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