On 23 June 2015 at 10:29, Filipe Miranda <fmira...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to suggest a great addition to the EPEL, the z Systems
> architecture (s390x).
> I have seem a great number of requests around EPEL for z Systems, its
> definitely a growing platform around Linux as IBM keeps offering better and
> more efficient servers that are basically a datacenter in a box - which is a
> great way for customers to reduce costs by consolidating Linux workloads.
> EPEL repository to s390x can be a great way to allow customers to try an
> unsupported package that still not available to RHEL on z Systems - that can
> in time mature, and can skip some of the processes to make into the RHEL for
> z Systems distro.
>
> The idea is to offer more technology options (Fedora Packages) to customers
> using RHEL on z Systems - this can flag us what packages are customers
> really interested into for RHEL on z Systems that are still not available in
> the Enterprise distro.
> Please let’s brainstorm this suggestion here, IBMers, community members,
> Fedora members, RedHatter, you are all welcome to join this discussion.
>
1) How would such items be built? The rest of EPEL is built with our
builders in PHX2. We don't have an s390 system in PHX2. Build
engineering requires access and the ability to 'rebuild' builders when
needed. EPEL has no
2) How would developers test these builds? Much of the pushback we
have in EPEL for other architectures is that developers have no
systems which they can test to see why something is broken or not.
This means we end up with a large amount of spec files with
ExcludeArch: ppc etc etc. The lack of hardware and cost-free software
(eg CentOS port) pretty much make any build problem get the hammer of
ExcludeArch:
3) There isn't really a way to tell you which packages customers are
interested in for two reasons:
a) If we build packages for an arch, then every EPEL package gets
built for it (except those with the ExcludeArch hammer)
b) User logs of yum does not show which package is requested... it
will show an estimate of users which for PPC is mainly engineers
inside of RH and IBM and a handful of sites. From talking with people
using PPC EPEL, they mirror it internally and no usage is seen.
> Thank you,
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Filipe Miranda
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