Winter 2011 Handout - Fedora-ARM Package Building and Troubleshooting

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Title

Fedora-ARM packaging and troubleshooting

Participants

Michael John Corsame
Andrew Parda
Rocella Jimenez
Chantell McIntosh

Introduction

We came in storming like it was 1942 all over again. As my fellow Canadian patriot's would say "EHH?!". A group of students undergo a school semester of building packages that were fedora 13 package updates. Not know what we were getting into we sure had excitement and determination in our eyes to get this project finished. Little did we know was that, we still haven't fully understood how the process of troubleshooting and building packages was or how big the arm package build was. It was indeed a project filled with doubts, hope and fulfillment.

These group of students mentioned at the top, right below "participants" are students with little knowledge of the fedora community. Being introduce to a vast growing community created room for improvement and friendships. It was indeed a huge improvement on how we tackled those packages we built and without the fedora community, we've pretty much would have been clueless throughout the semester.........................

Approach

Andrew Our approach was simple; Go through the list of packages that were failing to build for Fedora ARM and try our best to troubleshoot these packages. Also, we had to understand why these packages were failing and finally get them built. At the beginning of the semester we were provided with a list of packages that were having difficulties building... basically something to start off with. As the list of packages grew, so did our experience building these packages.

Challenges

Rocella

Results

Chantell

Links

All of us

Acknowledgments

Chris Tyler

Paul Whalen

Niels De Vos

Pictures / Graphics

All of us