12.3 status?

[Andreas Färber]

Hello Dinar,

Last time I heard, I had to cross-grade from Factory:PowerPC to
12.2:PowerPC because Factory:PowerPC was not building/publishing.

Is there any update on 12.3 status, given that a Beta party was
announced? I.e., is there a more recent repository to test than 12.2, be
it Factory or 12.3?

And do we plan to merge Factory:PowerPC into Factory proper like ARM is
targeting? Or are there still blockers keeping us from doing so?

Regards,
Andreas

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Andreas Färber
Hello Dinar,
Last time I heard, I had to cross-grade from Factory:PowerPC to
12.2:PowerPC because Factory:PowerPC was not building/publishing.

I had those publishing issues fixed some months ago, Factory is publishing
regulary currently.

Post by Andreas Färber
Is there any update on 12.3 status, given that a Beta party was
announced? I.e., is there a more recent repository to test than 12.2, be
it Factory or 12.3?
And do we plan to merge Factory:PowerPC into Factory proper like ARM is
targeting? Or are there still blockers keeping us from doing so?

PowerPC for 12.3 is building in openSUSE:12.3 directly, in the ports repo.

This causes some headaches currently as the "preinstallimages" speedups
for factory cause our workers to die (due to high io load we think, we
never fully debugged it).

Factory is in a good state failure wise, and you should probably test
from this right now until PPC 12.3 is build through.


I have however not actually tried upgrading or installing.

Ciao, Marcus

[Andreas Färber]

Post by Marcus Meissner

Post by Andreas Färber
Is there any update on 12.3 status, given that a Beta party was
announced? I.e., is there a more recent repository to test than 12.2, be
it Factory or 12.3?
And do we plan to merge Factory:PowerPC into Factory proper like ARM is
targeting? Or are there still blockers keeping us from doing so?

PowerPC for 12.3 is building in openSUSE:12.3 directly, in the ports repo.

Great to hear that!

Post by Marcus Meissner
This causes some headaches currently as the "preinstallimages" speedups
for factory cause our workers to die (due to high io load we think, we
never fully debugged it).
Factory is in a good state failure wise, and you should probably test
from this right now until PPC 12.3 is build through.

I `zypper dup`ed to Factory yesterday and ran into a couple minor issues
but am running fine now.
* It hung on reboot after installation, had to force-poweroff.
* There is no kernel-ppc64 any more, so my kernel was not upgraded.
=> `zypper in kernel-default` and change default Boot Loader in YaST
* Quite a few packages stayed behind, mostly libraries. => zypper rm
* The xf86-video-* packages have some ABI dependency issue currently.
* Surprised that /dev/kvm didn't have group kvm, will check qemu.spec.

Cheers,
Andreas

Post by Marcus Meissner
I have however not actually tried upgrading or installing.
Ciao, Marcus

[Dinar Valeev]

Post by Andreas Färber

Post by Marcus Meissner

Post by Andreas Färber
Is there any update on 12.3 status, given that a Beta party was
announced? I.e., is there a more recent repository to test than 12.2, be
it Factory or 12.3?
And do we plan to merge Factory:PowerPC into Factory proper like ARM is
targeting? Or are there still blockers keeping us from doing so?

PowerPC for 12.3 is building in openSUSE:12.3 directly, in the ports repo.

Great to hear that!

Post by Marcus Meissner
This causes some headaches currently as the "preinstallimages" speedups
for factory cause our workers to die (due to high io load we think, we
never fully debugged it).
Factory is in a good state failure wise, and you should probably test
from this right now until PPC 12.3 is build through.

I `zypper dup`ed to Factory yesterday and ran into a couple minor issues
but am running fine now.
* It hung on reboot after installation, had to force-poweroff.
* There is no kernel-ppc64 any more, so my kernel was not upgraded.

Yes. it seems we have kernel-default here.
see: http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/config/ppc64/default?id=a9cc3d5d756636b4b1d5df6b2b42e9a95b448ba3

Post by Andreas Färber
=> `zypper in kernel-default` and change default Boot Loader in YaST
* Quite a few packages stayed behind, mostly libraries. => zypper rm
* The xf86-video-* packages have some ABI dependency issue currently.
* Surprised that /dev/kvm didn't have group kvm, will check qemu.spec.
Cheers,
Andreas

Post by Marcus Meissner
I have however not actually tried upgrading or installing.
Ciao, Marcus

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[Andreas Färber]

Post by Dinar Valeev

Post by Andreas Färber
* There is no kernel-ppc64 any more, so my kernel was not upgraded.

Yes. it seems we have kernel-default here.
see: http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/config/ppc64/default?id=a9cc3d5d756636b4b1d5df6b2b42e9a95b448ba3

Post by Andreas Färber
=> `zypper in kernel-default` and change default Boot Loader in YaST

Yeah, I figured that out by looking at `zypper se kernel`. :)
Can we use Obsoletes: kernel-ppc64 on kernel-default to fix this?

Andreas

[Dinar Valeev]

Post by Andreas Färber

Post by Dinar Valeev

Post by Andreas Färber
* There is no kernel-ppc64 any more, so my kernel was not upgraded.

Yes. it seems we have kernel-default here.
see: http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/config/ppc64/default?id=a9cc3d5d756636b4b1d5df6b2b42e9a95b448ba3

Post by Andreas Färber
=> `zypper in kernel-default` and change default Boot Loader in YaST

Yeah, I figured that out by looking at `zypper se kernel`. :)
Can we use Obsoletes: kernel-ppc64 on kernel-default to fix this?

I'll write to opensuse-kernel ML

Post by Andreas Färber
Andreas
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[Larry Stotler]

Post by Dinar Valeev
I'll write to opensuse-kernel ML

I see that there is a 12.3 repo for PowerPC. Has anyone installed &
is using this?

What are the recommended specs?

Thanx

[Larry Finger]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Dinar Valeev
I'll write to opensuse-kernel ML

I see that there is a 12.3 repo for PowerPC. Has anyone installed &
is using this?

I would like to see the NET install iso for 32-bit systems.

Larry

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Dinar Valeev
I'll write to opensuse-kernel ML

I see that there is a 12.3 repo for PowerPC. Has anyone installed &
is using this?
What are the recommended specs?

http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/

Mostly unchanged from 12.2.

I zypper duped my PowerMac G5 to 12.3 and it boots and starts X at least.

For the 32bit NET ISO I have to wait until after easter for the colleague
to return as I do not have write permission to the project where it is generated.

But you could just take the files from
http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/suseboot/
(not sure exactly how to set them up for boot.)


Also note that we are now publishing powerpc updates!

The URL for the Update Repository is different from the x86 url:

http://download.opensuse.org/ports/update/12.3/

(might not get added or changed automatically to it... fresh installs should get it.)

Ciao, Marcus

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Marcus Meissner
Also note that we are now publishing powerpc updates!

Nice! Good to hear there is still some life left in this. I'm toying
with picking up a G5(Dual proc 2.0) to play. Fastest Powermac I have
is a 466Mhz G4 now.

What about the build service? I'm assuming most repos are only built
for 32/64bit x86?

Thanx

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Marcus Meissner
Also note that we are now publishing powerpc updates!

Nice! Good to hear there is still some life left in this. I'm toying
with picking up a G5(Dual proc 2.0) to play. Fastest Powermac I have
is a 466Mhz G4 now.
What about the build service? I'm assuming most repos are only built
for 32/64bit x86?

Various development projects have powerpc support these days (but msotly
enable Factory PowerPC).

If you are interested in projects to have powerpc binaries you can write
them...

Ciao, Marcus

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Marcus Meissner
Various development projects have powerpc support these days (but msotly
enable Factory PowerPC).
If you are interested in projects to have powerpc binaries you can write
them...

Not me. I'm not a programmer. I just play with the hardware to see
if I can get any use out of it. :-)

[Dinar Valeev]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Marcus Meissner
Various development projects have powerpc support these days (but msotly
enable Factory PowerPC).
If you are interested in projects to have powerpc binaries you can write
them...

Not me. I'm not a programmer. I just play with the hardware to see
if I can get any use out of it. :-)

But you'll give us the feedback, right? ;)

Post by Larry Stotler
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[Larry Stotler]

Post by Dinar Valeev
But you'll give us the feedback, right? ;)

I sincerely hope so. That's how I try to help out.