building PPC Fedora packages, from the beginning

[Dan Horák]

Hollis Blanchard píše v Po 27. 12. 2010 v 11:08 -0800:
> I don't know anything about the Fedora development process. So can
> someone point me to a page describing how it's supposed to work? I'm
> looking for something like this:
> 
> 1. Go to http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds?order=-state
> and pick a broken package.
> 2. Run fedpkg something something to get the source.
> 3. Patch it.
> 4. Run koji something something to build with your patch.

the build check can be done locally using mock or with a scratch build
in koji

> 5. Once it works, send patch somewhere.
> 
> Do I need an account in the koji web interface? When I click the
> "login" link I get SSL errors.

You need a Fedora account to access koji (see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem), for details
about using koji see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system and for
information about fedpkg see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Fedora_GIT

And when you would like to solve the issues on-line, you can join
#fedora-devel or #fedora-ppc channels on FreeNode IRC.

And regarding the patches for either the spec file or the source code -
it's more than welcome when one checks whether the problem is ppc/ppc64
(when we are in fedora/ppc) specific or big-endian specific or 64-bit
specific, etc and the potential tries to fix all architectures. It can
help us doing Fedora/s390x or the Fedora/sparc people, etc.


		Dan