openSUSE 12.2 for Power released!

[Dinar Valeev]

Hi,

"SHA1 sum is wrong" bug has been fixed, so we reached a stage where we
can release openSUSE 12.2 for Power.

So far we has been tested it on PowerMac, PowerStation and PowerVM(IBM
pSeries Machines).

You can install netinstall images on [1]. You can use it with [2] repo

Known bug:
*yaboot installed incorrectly on PowerMac, when ext4 or lvm is used on root.
*there might be issues with X environment, as it wasn't tested.

Have fun,
Dinar

[1] http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/iso
[2] http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/repo/oss/

[Andreas Färber]

Hi,

Post by Dinar Valeev
"SHA1 sum is wrong" bug has been fixed, so we reached a stage where we
can release openSUSE 12.2 for Power.
So far we has been tested it on PowerMac, PowerStation and PowerVM(IBM
pSeries Machines).
You can install netinstall images on [1]. You can use it with [2] repo
*yaboot installed incorrectly on PowerMac, when ext4 or lvm is used on root.
*there might be issues with X environment, as it wasn't tested.

I cross-graded from Factory to 12.2 (zypper dup) and lots of packages
changed architecture ppc -> ppc64. Is that intentional?

The previous Factory .isos installed ppc RPMs on my system with only the
kernel-ppc64 package.

Further, it seems that after it installed the new glibc 'rpm' is broken:

Installing: glibc-2.15-22.6.29 ...................................[done]
Installing: libaio1-0.3.109-10.1.13 .............................[error]
Installation of libaio1-0.3.109-10.1.13 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed:
Can't exec 'rpm' (No such file or directory).


Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a):

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Andreas

[Marcus Meissner]

Post by Andreas Färber
Hi,

Post by Dinar Valeev
"SHA1 sum is wrong" bug has been fixed, so we reached a stage where we
can release openSUSE 12.2 for Power.
So far we has been tested it on PowerMac, PowerStation and PowerVM(IBM
pSeries Machines).
You can install netinstall images on [1]. You can use it with [2] repo
*yaboot installed incorrectly on PowerMac, when ext4 or lvm is used on root.
*there might be issues with X environment, as it wasn't tested.

I cross-graded from Factory to 12.2 (zypper dup) and lots of packages
changed architecture ppc -> ppc64. Is that intentional?
The previous Factory .isos installed ppc RPMs on my system with only the
kernel-ppc64 package.
Installing: glibc-2.15-22.6.29 ...................................[done]
Installing: libaio1-0.3.109-10.1.13 .............................[error]
Can't exec 'rpm' (No such file or directory).
Any suggestions?

So 12.2 is a full biarch tree, both ppc32 and ppc64. Factory also had this, but
I am not sure it ever fully build through.

There also either is an issue with zypper dup doing a 32->64bit migration
for either dependency or other magic reasons.

This kind of switch might cause RPM not to work :/

So the switch somehow broke your RPM, likely by the glibc installation.

Does rpm still work from the commandline? If not, you will need to manually
bring a copy on the system and either update rpm to 64bit first, or isntall
glibc-32bit.

Ciao, Marcus