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Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Any luck on getting X running that chroot'ed Fedora?

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

I have been fiddling with it on the colmmand line. It appears the arm porters did a not great work on fedora 12. for instance I have tried installing both some individual apps (err packages) and groups as well using yum groupinstall. I have encountered "dependancy hell" (wasn't yum setup to alleviate that?) in both instances. too bad why would people half port something? perhaps there will be a better fedora 13 arm port in the future. I'd be suprised if there were any graphical things that wouldn't be better in quoles masterful easy debian at this point.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Half port is better than no port :) We shall announce the easy debian as king of all ports then :D

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

only when talking wine.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

How fella's!

Anyone got easy fedora running??

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

ep should have an answer for that. Without X I don't see much use of it.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

My biggest complaint about Fedora ARM is the missing packages. It feels like they did it as an experiment, or a proof of concept, rather than a working distribution. Debian actually works, and most of the packages are there. Sometimes I forget how much work they've done on the Debian distro, and it takes something like the Fedora ARM distro to realise how amazing the Debian ARM system is.

On the other hand, I'm disappointed that you're having so many troubles. That's really too bad.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

like for instance tring to install yum groupinstall Base fails.

I agree it is a real shame. I also agree it makes you really apreciate debian for arm more. shame as again there really are enough differences to justify learning the 2 distros, and most production environments will use the fedora like commands.

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

Quote:

Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 807889)

You have to rebuild the database and then edit your repo files to get yum working.

Make the repos look like this:

fedora.repo

Code:

[fedora]

name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch

#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

baseurl=ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Everything/arm/os/Packages/

enabled=1

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch



[fedora-source]

name=Fedora $releasever - Source

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/

#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-primary



[fedora-arm-source]

name=Fedora ARM $releasever - Source

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

and fedora-updates.repo

Code:

[updates]

name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates

#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

baseurl=ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/arm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch



[updates-source]

name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source

failovermethod=priority

#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/

mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch



[updates-arm-source]

name=Fedora ARM $releasever - Updates Source

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.fedora-arm.wantstofly.org/?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

enabled=0

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

Re: anyone else want "easy fedora"

quole already made a working you rootfs which I used, yum is working in it. If I do the steps you outline will it be any better? for instance can you do yum groupinstal Base?