[Yum] Survey of Use

[Garrick Staples]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:05:39PM -0400, Hedemark, Magnus alleged:
> Garrick Staples [mailto:garrick at usc.edu] said:
> > Me.  I'm currently talking to my boss about having a few build machines.
> > We already have mirrors.usc.edu to distro the distro.
> 
> Very cool.
> 
> > I need a distro with 18 to 24 months of packaged updates, performance
> > optimizations for i686/x86_64/itanium/ppc, 1000+ machines, and has
> > certified compatibility with a few 3rd party software packages.  
> 
> If you're rolling your own distro, who is going to certify compatibility?

"certify" is too big a word.  I need a few 3rd party companies to support
their software on my machines.  Right now I'm assuming they are
comfortable with fedora.  And I'm assuming they'll support me with
rebuilds of fedora on another arch.

 
> > I don't need support from RH, annual upgrades, unfeasibly licensing.
> 
> I tried the support and the few times I actually opened tickets RH was
> incapable of resolving them in any reasonable amount of time.  I was flat
> out told that core things like LDAP authentication or autofs were not
> supported (this was in RHAS 2.1).

Haha, I think Google will find posts from me trying to get support from
RH5.x =P  Redhat has a long history of failing to support paying
customers.

 
> > I figure using fedora is fine for x86.  We just need to build it for the
> > other arches and maintain the errata rpms.  I've presented this to my
> > boss as $700,000 to RH, or a few months of my time to do my own builds.  
> 
> I, too, am trying to learn RHL enough to roll my own distro.  It seems to me
> that the fedora announcement is another step towards dumping the consumer
> distro and investing all R&D into the RHEL lineup.  While RH claims that
> Fedora is a community run distro, it is under RH's leadership (an
> organization that has no real experience or credibility in running community
> projects).
> 
> It seems that many of us here on this list have similar goals.  i.e. an RPM
> based distro that uses yum & kickstart, remains stable, is well maintained,
> has a long life cycle, etc.  Do we have enough in common to pool resources?

I think we do :)

Anyone know how to bootstrap a 64bit distro from a 32bit machine?  I'm
reading some faqs on installing cross compilers, but I'm thinking of
just installing x86 fedora on an opteron and trying to build everything
from there.

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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