On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:46:53 -0600 Eric Sandeen sandeen@redhat.com wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
As for the other points, if we can't provide (and document) the ability for developers to test on a secondary arch, that arch needs to be removed from Fedora completely. It's useless to expect developers to magically fix things they can't debug.
Hm, good point. My initial reaction to all this was "building on other arches finds good bugs" and I thought back fondly on my e2fsprogs bug from last week... then I rembered that I, too, have a magic incantation to invoke a ppc login somewhere and without that I would have been stumped a lot longer. If most fedora devels can't get access to one of these boxes, it's a problem, isn't it... :(
It's not a problem at all. David has repeatedly said, on this list, if you email him a public ssh key he will give you an account on a ppc64 box.
There might be another alternative soon, but it's beyond my control so I'm not going to elaborate on it.
josh