On 05/27/2013 03:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > you are a good man :) But those of us who do know who as quiet person > do know that, do you fancy trying a build using virtualistaion? The > server area to do it is not a low resource. it just happens to be > CentOS (RH) system. If you can follow on what inifinty et all said, > I'm well up for it :)
I'm somewhat confused by the RH/CentOS aspect and who can and can't access that server. So I'm ignoring that for now :) I see three possibilities: (1) Unpacking a RH .rpm file for testing should be relatively straightforward, if that is the plan. Point me at the RPM and I can create a corresponding tarball for you, if you want. (2) I can try setting up a qemu PPC VM here and see how ridiculously slowly it runs! I have done qemu emulation of ARM for other projects so that part I can do. But if xombrero is a large piece of software, and the powerpc emulation is slow... we could be looking at leaving it running for days just to build the package that way! (3) I can also try installing Ubuntu Server on "my" long-term-borrowed iBook G4 (using a GUI on it seems to cause more trouble than it is worth!) and building xombrero on that. At least that way the build is running on a real physical PPC CPU. (3A) I might even be able to test the resulting xombrero package by running it over SSH from a different (amd64) machine, so display and keyboard are on a machine I know and trust. (3B) If not, we can instead make the binary .deb package available for others with PPC machines to test. So we have options... Jonathan -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
