Fixing yum on F14-arm build os31

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> > The "Switch to Fedora-14" build.
> >
> > Download from:
> >
> >   http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os31/
>
> The default yum config - which we include - points to the official
> Fedora mirrors, and those don't really support unsupported
> architectures like ARM. Surprise!
>

Actually there is a means of this being supported when F-14 gets replicated
to the secondary mirrors. I'm working to get this to happen but there's a
few holdups.


> Of course it's in my list of things to fix. In the meantime, here's
> what you can do
>
>  - edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-update.repo -- look at the first
> section, disable it (enabled=0)
>
>  - edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo -- look at the first section,
> disable gpg checks (gpgcheck=0), comment out the mirrorlist line, and
> add
>   baseurl=
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/repos/dist-f14-build/latest/arm/
>
> You're done! Note that it is a partial repo, and it only has the
> packages at the F14 release time versions. Additionally, some packages
> are missing or tagged wrong.
>
> If you want a package that is missing, ping Peter to see if it'll be
> available soon.
>

Poke me on IRC/gtalk and its likely I can push it through, a few like csound
are being fun but we're getting there.


> If you see a package or dependency bail out complaining about
> python(abi)=2.6, let Peter know. The repo is just showing the wrong
> package (and the right one is likely there).
>
>
Poke me on IRC/gtalk. This one is a side effect of the mass rebuild script
due to the bump to python. Hopefully we'll past this one soon.

Peter
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