[WBEL-devel] x86_64 images (ready, but not uploaded)

[Ryan Finnie]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> recompiled the stuff once again. Today i've made ISO-images, but i have
> only crappy 384kbit/s uplink, so i'd need some space (3.2GB to be more
> exact).

I've got more than enough space, and an 8mbps link (well, anywhere between
0 and 6mbps depening on the time of day; I'm also a mirror for apache.org,
gentoo (rsync and dist), gnu.org and CPAN).  I can give you an account to
scp them to, or I could scp/rsync them directly from you, whatever works
easier for you.  Then they could be put up on bittorrent. (Sidenote: it
appears the bt tracker for whl is down.  If something has come up, I can
volunteer for hosting the trackers.)

Question 1: Does this release include the 32-bit compatibility overlay of
glibc as well as the 32-bit only apps such as openoffice, pxe, etc?  If
so, did you do it the red hat way (hereby referred to as "horible,
horrible, clusterfuck"), or did you create 32-bit glibc compat packages
that don't clobber the existing 64-bit ones?

Question 2: Were you able to get the freeradius-0.9.3-1 errata compiled?
Because when I try to build it, it does not seem to want to build the
rlm_*.so files.  Interestingly enough, freeradius-0.9.0-2 compiles just
fine.

Question 3: Are you including all of the binary -devel packages that red
hat "forgot" to include in the various incarnations of taroon?

Question 4: (well, not really a question)  Two things about the naming
convention.  Red Hat refers to its arch and packages as x86_64, but the
compilation itself is called amd64 (such as rhel-3-AMD64-as-disc1.iso, and
also in bugzilla).  We should probably follow suit.

Also, since this release is an offshoot of the i386-rc1 (it looks like
i386 will be the "leader" in the porting efforts, and all other arches are
ports of the i386 port), the isos should probably respect that as well.
I'm thinking filenames for non-i386 ports should be like so:

liberation-rc2-amd64-rc1-disc1.iso

Yes, it's a bit long, but that way it's obvious that that is an amd64-rc1
port of the i386-rc2 branch.

As for our little unofficial "race" here (assuming you and I are the only
ones working on x86_64 at the moment), looks like you won. :)  I currently
have a WBEL setup installed, and are about 75% done compiling WBEL on top
of itself.  HOWEVER, it's 64-bit libs only, I haven't touched the 32-bit
compatibility stuff yet, which is why I'm interested in if you have
tackled that yet.  Anyways, as soon as I'm able to download your isos,
I'll install them and begin playing with them.

A dual opteron setup would be nice right about now, but as it stands I'm
perfectly happy with my new athlon64 3200+ :)

RF