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05 Monday

  • new builders received and configuration begun, one new builder on line as arm4
  • meeting with Chris
  • Interview

06 Tuesday

  • arm4 ready and enabled in Koji
  • create single image for deployment on builders

07 Wednesday

  • Meeting - status update of projects.
  • configure new builders, arm5, 6
  • Troubleshooting builds.

08 Thursday

  • Troubleshooting builds.
  • set up Plugs on new rack.

09 Friday

  • Blog regarding ARM Build Sys status.
  • Troubleshooting builder problems, all local builders working.

12 Monday

  • Planning discussion with Chris.
  • Attempts to check out of CVS.
  • Added SCM functionality.

13 Tuesday

  • Review and successful build on pack 'R'
  • Troubleshooting Koji Builder issue, permissions on directories.

14 Wednesday

  • Started patching packages: mysql, nss, bickley, mutter, clutter-gtk, coreutils, ctemplate.

15 Thursday

  • continued patching and testing packages.

16 Friday

  • Packages, packages, packages. Continuing through the list.

20 Tuesday

  • meeting with Chris
  • purposed changes to Tags and additional Targets
  • Work on devel branch packages.

21 Wednesday

  • create repo task moved to New Zealand.
  • added additional tags and targets.
  • troubleshooting build failures with build-previous script
  • research using rsync for back ups of Hong Kong to Scotland.

22 Thursday

  • continued attempting to execute build-previous script
  • added new tags/build targets
  • troubleshooting builders, space issues, resized lvms
  • testing backup with rsync.

23 Friday

  • unable to fix nfs issue with arm5, had to reboot Hong Kong.
  • reboot caused problems with all but one builder, troubleshooting kojid not starting.
  • add arm.koji.fedoraproject.org to all builders hosts file, issue was with name resolution.
  • attempting to add upstart to dist-f13 to resolve dep issues.
  • after many attempts, upstart was added however it created a problem with initscripts as it lists a version conflict. Imported the latest version of initscripts to resolve issue. Sendmail still has a dep problem , but upstart and initscripts no longer mentioned.
  • did test for pjs group

26 Monday

  • build-previous script executed on the 23rd, after importing latest db4 all builds fail due to issue with dependencies.
  • imported newer versions of rpm, cyrus-sasl, perl and pam to resolve dep issues.
  • work on devel branch packages.

27 Tuesday

  • packages imported, added db4 back, again builds fail. removed again to find correct package versions.
  • finished all devel branch packages that built on both platforms.

28 Wednesday

  • packages with dependency issues rebuilt manually using mock on the builders.
  • imported into koji, db4-4.8 re-added.
  • paperwork required by HR, ie transcript arranged with Registration.
  • blog about Koji breakage and packages needing attention for arm (patching).

29 Thursday

  • with the addition of compat-db koji working again
  • execute build-previous script and react to issues as they arise, ie version mismatch.
  • changes made to tags
  • started to package mkrootfs

30 Friday

  • additional correspondence and telephone conversation with HR.
  • version mismatch issue resolved.
  • re-queue all tasks that failed due to version mismatch problem.
  • additional changes to tags to prevent version mismatch for packages from dist-f11, dist-f12