On 08/28/2015 10:40 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Adam Miller
> <maxamillion(a)fedoraproject.org <mailto:maxamillion@fedoraproject.org>>
>
> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us
>
> <mailto:dennis@ausil.us>> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last night I had some time to myself, I decided to look at what it
> > would take to get atomic running on arm. after having to tweak some
> > of the json files. the hardcoded ref in it if not flexible at all
> > - "ref":
"fedora-atomic/rawhide/x86_64/docker-host",
> > + "ref":
"fedora-atomic/rawhide/armhfp/docker-host",
> >
> > Neither is the hardcoded packages,
> > - "grub2", "grub2-efi",
"ostree-grub2",
> > - "efibootmgr", "shim",
> > + "extlinux-bootloader",
> >
> > the packages in every other part of our deliverables are dealt with
> > by using comps and yum/dnf skipping over missing things. Which made
> > me curious about how it was envisioned to support atomic on
> > multiple arches as it seems to be designed around a single arch
> > silo.
> >
> > However once I got past that I discovered that atomic and kubernetes
> > both had "ExclusiveArch: x86_64" in the spec files (Violating
> > packaging guidelines in the process) but they do actually build
> > just fine for all the primary arches and are installable on arm at
> > least. I was able to make a atomic repo in the end. I plan to
> > throw together a kickstart and attempt to install it as soon as I
> > can.
>
> This is awesome, let me know if you have something that you'd like
> help testing. I have a spare TrimSlice that's currently sitting idle
> and would love to see some Atomic action on it. :)
>
> > What will it take to fix the packaging and get people on board for
> > supporting the greater world? could it be something we work with
> > someone like
https://www.scaleway.com/ who have arm based cloud
> > servers today to>
> support?
>
> How do we do that? Is there an official avenue to pursue working with
> cloud vendors? What was the process to get the Fedora Cloud image into
> IaaS providers with fedimg? (I assume some sort of relationship has to
> be established between Fedora as a project and the cloud provider)
>
> -AdamM
>
> Send the scaleway people an email, letting them know you are asking
> officially on behalf of Fedora cloud.
> In my personal dealings, they have been very nice to work with.
> I don't know how it came about, but I know that centos has 4 machines
> dedicated to them. I'm not saying that will happen, just saying it.
It looks like we already have Fedora on Scaleway?
https://www.scaleway.com/imagehub/fedora/
There is a fedora remix, it does not have our kernel.
Dennis