Fedora ARM Meeting 2012 May 09

CDOT Fedora ARM Team

2012-05-09

Updates

• agreene: bconoboy's nightly setup is configured/tested/communicated to blc. (agreene to follow up)

• backup from chile to romania is set up, host keys present an error (maxam)

• IRCC announcement went out yesterday afternoon

• pwhalen has autoqa set up on Japan, will be using two builders remotely

OCE Discovery

• Raspi+40"+22" screen

• Need some 3D demos

• Need handout

• Test+practice on Thu/Fri

Disk Upgrades for Chile

• Plan for Friday afternoon - start at noon EDT - 1700 UTC

• Disable builders at ~ 11:30 am EDT

• Tell the list about the downtime (ctyler)

• Affected services:

• • armpkgs.fedoraproject.org

• • Koji buildsystem - hub

• Upgrade plan:

• 1. Add 3TB disk + 600GB SSD + PCIe SATA controller

• 1. Stop + remove md6 array

• 1. Add SSD to md1 array

• 1. Remove /dev/sdf1 from md6 array

• 1. Add /dev/sdX to new RAID1 array (replacing old md6)

• 1. Adjust /etc/mdadm.conf

• 1. Adjust dracut - insert new /etc/mdadm.conf

• 1. Reboot to test

# Use fdisk to partition the new SSD and disk

mdadm --stop /dev/md6

mdadm --stop /dev/md2

mdadm /dev/md1 --grow -l 0 -n 4 -a /dev/sdX1   # sdX1 is the 600GB SSD

mdadm --stop /dev/md6   # needed? check for other device numbers too?

fdisk -l /dev/md1

mdadm --create /dev/md6 -n 2 -l 1 /dev/md1 -W /dev/sdZ1   # sdZ1 is the 3TB mechanical disk

• For dracut, add the --mdadmconf option

Raspi

• Firstboot - (frojoe)

• Waterbear - needs testing on Pi (agreene), in review (ctyler)

• Scratch - needs new spec (maxam)

• Kidsruby + Rubywarrior - needs changes to spec file (fossjon)

• Kernels - need testing (ctyler)

Goals and Action Points

• Waterbear - re-review by Friday (ctyler)

• Kidsruby - ready for re-review by Friday (fossjon)

• Chile backup - working by Thursday night (maxam)

• Scratch - packaged by Friday (maxam) (could be submitted for review next week)

• Kernels - test 4x kernels by Friday (ctyler)

• Firstboot - forked/patched packages by Friday (frojoe)

• Oscar and Felix - ???

• Posted to the wiki (agreene)

Supplies

• HDMI splitter +

• Ethernet cables

• PSU for Felix

• Shelf liners

• Lucite box for raspi

Notes on Using GIT to Create a Patch

git init 

git add * 

git commit -a -m "Initial commit"

(make some changes)

git commit -a -m "Some useful changelog message"

git log --oneline

git format-patch HEAD^1

In the spec file in the preamble:

Patch0: name-of-file.patch

In the spec file in the %prep:

%patch0 -p1