Factory for PPC again building

[Marcus Meissner]

Hi,

I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.

So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)

Ciao, Marcus

[Peter Czanik]

Post by Marcus Meissner
Hi,
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.
So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)

How much time does it take to sync it to powerpc.opensuse.org? So I
don't rsync to it every few minutes :-D
Bye,
CzP

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Peter Czanik

Post by Marcus Meissner
Hi,
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.
So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)

How much time does it take to sync it to powerpc.opensuse.org? So I
don't rsync to it every few minutes :-D

I guess "days".

Ciao, Marcus

[Richard (MQ)]

Post by Marcus Meissner

Post by Peter Czanik

Post by Marcus Meissner
Hi,
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.
So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)

How much time does it take to sync it to powerpc.opensuse.org? So I
don't rsync to it every few minutes :-D

I guess "days".
Ciao, Marcus

Is there any way to know when powerpc.opensuse.org has synced? Other
than by checking timestamps of e.g. key files at
http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ (such as ChangeLog ) - 12
October is the latest that I can see today.

I have bandwidth limitations that I keep hitting so I don't want to
waste it on old stuff.

Is the webmaster (ftpmaster?) of powerpc.opensuse.org subscribed here -
perhaps (s)he could tell us.

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Richard (MQ)

Post by Marcus Meissner

Post by Peter Czanik

Post by Marcus Meissner
Hi,
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.
So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)

How much time does it take to sync it to powerpc.opensuse.org? So I
don't rsync to it every few minutes :-D

I guess "days".
Ciao, Marcus

Is there any way to know when powerpc.opensuse.org has synced? Other
than by checking timestamps of e.g. key files at
http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ (such as ChangeLog ) - 12
October is the latest that I can see today.
I have bandwidth limitations that I keep hitting so I don't want to
waste it on old stuff.
Is the webmaster (ftpmaster?) of powerpc.opensuse.org subscribed here -
perhaps (s)he could tell us.

I do not think he is, but I asked coolo.

If this package is succeesfully built:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=_product%3AopenSUSE-ftp-ftp-ppc&project=openSUSE%3AFactory
then around 2 hours later the packages will be synced. (It is building the ftp tree I think.)

Ciao, Marcus

[Peter Czanik]

Post by Richard (MQ)
Is there any way to know when powerpc.opensuse.org has synced? Other

Post by Richard (MQ)
than by checking timestamps of e.g. key files at
http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ (such as ChangeLog ) - 12
October is the latest that I can see today.
I have bandwidth limitations that I keep hitting so I don't want to
waste it on old stuff.
Is the webmaster (ftpmaster?) of powerpc.opensuse.org subscribed here -
perhaps (s)he could tell us.

I do not think he is, but I asked coolo.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=_product%3AopenSUSE-ftp-ftp-ppc&project=openSUSE%3AFactory
then around 2 hours later the packages will be synced. (It is building the ftp tree I think.)

And one can check here where package building is at the moment:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3AFactory
i586 and ppc has roughly the same "successful" and "failed" count, which
is a good sign, as far as I can understand.
Bye,
CzP

[Stephen Michael Kellat]

Marcus,

Thank you for the good news. When it comes to CISC vs. RISC, I've been
finding lately that the PowerPC chips are more elegant than the
Intel-based things that even the Mac laptop in-house is running on.

Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS
Sheffield Township, Ohio

Post by Marcus Meissner
Hi,
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.
So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)
Ciao, Marcus
--

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Marcus Meissner
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.
So while there is no distro as of now, Factory could be tested
and used. (Or even snapshotted.)

Has anyone gotten together a roadmap for 11.3 yet? I know 11.2's only
bee out shortly, but....... :-)

How hard would it be to snapshot something that would be close to the
11.2 release?

[Karl Eichwalder]

For the record, I'm also one of those openSUSE PPC users. I'm thinking
about updating my iBook (G3)--it's currently running 10.3 or 11.0. I do
not use it that often.

[Jean Malherbe]

Post by Karl Eichwalder
For the record, I'm also one of those openSUSE PPC users. I'm thinking
about updating my iBook (G3)--it's currently running 10.3 or 11.0. I do
not use it that often.

For the record, I too use openSUSE PPC. I have a G3 Powerbook (Pismo) with
768MB RAM and a 120GB Hard drive and I use 11.0. I tried upgrading to 11.1
unsuccessfully. It was too sluggish with KDE 4. I didn't try too hard to
speed it up, but reverted to 11.0 with KDE 3 and am quite happy with what
I've got. I use it every day. There were actually a few things broken such
as wifi (though I think my wifi card died in the meantime) and Open Office
also was broken. So I reverted.

I do like the idea of being able to upgrade without having to reinstall,
such as from 11.1 to 11.2, but would have to go through the whole
reinstall from 11.0, which is a pain when you have everything working to
your satisfaction...

[Peter Czanik]

Hello,

Post by Marcus Meissner
I just got informed that openSUSE Factory is again building
against PowerPC.

Building seems to be stuck at the "berkeleydb" package. According to
https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log?arch=ppc&package=berkeleydb&project=openSUSE%3AFactory&repository=standard
it is in the testing phase. This page did not change in the past few
hours. Could somebody check, if it is a package bug (a test is broken,
probably an endless loop), or it is just the BS not refreshing the live
logs?
Thanks, bye,
CzP

[Peter Czanik]

Hello,

Post by Peter Czanik
Building seems to be stuck at the "berkeleydb" package. According to
https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log?arch=ppc&package=berkeleydb&project=openSUSE%3AFactory&repository=standard
it is in the testing phase. This page did not change in the past few
hours. Could somebody check, if it is a package bug (a test is broken,
probably an endless loop), or it is just the BS not refreshing the live
logs?

OK, sorry for the noise, it is working, just (very) slowly...
Bye,
CzP

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Peter Czanik
OK, sorry for the noise, it is working, just (very) slowly...

Did it ever finish building? I looked in factory and there are a lot
of old dates on them and the Net ISO is still at 10-14.

[Peter Czanik]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Peter Czanik
OK, sorry for the noise, it is working, just (very) slowly...

Did it ever finish building? I looked in factory and there are a lot
of old dates on them and the Net ISO is still at 10-14.

Yes, but ISO files were never generated, as building of factory was
restarted (don't ask me why, I just figured out the fact :-) ). But
build time was 14+ hours due to some test runs, already discussed on the
packaging list and fixed...
Bye,
CzP

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Peter Czanik

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Peter Czanik
OK, sorry for the noise, it is working, just (very) slowly...

Did it ever finish building? I looked in factory and there are a lot
of old dates on them and the Net ISO is still at 10-14.

Yes, but ISO files were never generated, as building of factory was
restarted (don't ask me why, I just figured out the fact :-) ). But
build time was 14+ hours due to some test runs, already discussed on the
packaging list and fixed...

It takes several days to complete a factory build and unfortunately
new packages were checked inon Friday :/

Ciao, Marcus