[Aurora-sparc-user] Corona

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 16:10 +0100, mat h wrote:
> I've been away from my beloved sparcs for a while [trapped in apple/OS X 
> land, god help me] so have missed a little. Whilst browsing the repos on 
> Ibiblio I noticed that the Corona folder had a recent time stamp, and was 
> very pleased looking inside to see brand new development stuff 
> [cryptsetup-luks! finally!].
> 
> My ultra60 has always been for testing the bleeding edge of aurora [it's 
> hostname is even corona] so I'll brush the dust off the poor thing and fire 
> up yum the second I get in - before I totally hose it though, is anyone else 
> running up to date Corona machines? Any major gotchas? I know Jima 
> previously said that the 2.6.16 kernel often doesn't play nice with glibc.
> 
> Looking forward to getting back to my sparclinux machines after all that 
> apple stuff!

A couple of things:

The corona tree is not (yet) a complete tree. Big chunks of gnome are
missing. There is not currently a new kernel in that tree. You're not
going to be able to cleanly yum update to it. 

The new gcc no longer has the -sparc32 subpackages. If you have
gcc-sparc32 or gcc-c++-sparc32 installed, remove them before trying to
upgrade things.

No ISOs, obviously.

Anything .sparcv9 is broken right now. Don't install those bits.
Anything debuginfo is broken, but this is nothing new.

Me and Dennis have been working pretty hard to try and get this tree in
good working order, I'm hoping we'll have an Aurora release off FC-6
shortly after the actual FC-6.

~spot
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