Fedora ARM Meeting 2012 May 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
  2. Stop + remove md6 array
  3. Add SSD to md1 array
  4. Remove /dev/sdf1 from md6 array
  5. Add /dev/sdX to new RAID1 array (replacing old md6)
  6. Adjust /etc/mdadm.conf
  7. Adjust dracut - insert new /etc/mdadm.conf
  8. 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