Architectures/MIPS/2015Bootstrap/mipsel

Bootstrapping Fedora mipsel

Current status: Stage 5

Issues: Architectures/MIPS/2015Bootstrap/mipsel/issues

Stages 1 and 2

Stage 1 - Cross-compile kernel, glibc, gcc, make and other tools to be able to either boot a system or create a working chroot

Stage 2 - Build a working RPM from upstream sources

Stages 1 and 2 have been skipped. Instead of cross-compiling tools and building basic root filesystem, the existing Debian environment which has a working RPM and most of the libraries required for bootstrapping Fedora has been used.

Stage 3

Build packages using RPM until mock can be used. Make the system bootable on real hardware and in QEMU.

Using RPM and libraries from Debian Jessie available from http://www.elinux.org/CI20_Distros#Upgrading_to_Debian_8_.2F_Jessie a small set of RPMs forming a very limited Fedora root has been built. Not all the dependencies are satisfied and a few sonames do not match between Debian and Fedora, but installing the stage3 set with rpm --nodeps forms a working Fedora chroot that can be used for building.

• Repo BIN: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage3/bin/
• Repo DEBUG: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage3/debug/
• Repo SOURCE: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage3/src/

Stage 3.1

Since Stage 3 requires commenting out all BuildRequires and supplying all the dependencies manually, it seems to be more practical to use a "true" Fedora chroot as soon as possible. The minimal root built in Stage 3 has been installed and used for further building. Since this is somewhere between Stages 3 and 4, it has been named Stage 3.1.

• Repo BIN: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage3.1/bin/
• Repo DEBUG: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage3.1/debug/
• Repo SOURCE: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage3.1/src/

Stage 4

Build everything using mock until a reasonable set of packages is built and Koji can take over.

Fedora 22

• Repo BIN: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage4/bin/
• Repo DEBUG: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage4/debug/
• Repo SOURCE: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mipsel/stage4/src/

Fedora 23

• Repo BIN: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/23/mipsel/stage4/bin/
• Repo DEBUG: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/23/mipsel/stage4/debug/
• Repo SOURCE: http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/23/mipsel/stage4/src/

Stage 5

Rebuild everything using koji.

Fedora 24

• Repo BIN: https://mipsdistros.imgtec.com/fedora/development/24/mipsel/os/
• Repo DEBUG: https://mipsdistros.imgtec.com/fedora/development/24/mipsel/debug/
• Repo SOURCE: https://mipsdistros.imgtec.com/fedora/development/24/source/SRPMS/

Stage 6

Have koji-shadow set up and track primary.