Pidora – 19 Alpha – Revived?
Thanks to a comment from Mace Moneta, I learned that there is an ‘alpha release’ of Pidora 19 now available:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2013-November/007021.html
It was a little odd that no mention of this could be found on the Pidora website or Wiki, but hopefully these will be updated in due course..
Pidora release 19 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Kernel 3.12.0+ on an armv6l (ttyAMA0)
This ‘update’ is actually a replacement, as it consists of a boot/root file system image.. Hopefully future updates will be available – at least – by the usual ‘yum releasever…. distro-sync‘ method.
For those of you who cross-compile their own kernels, it is worth mentioning there is a useful copy of a kernel .config file in the boot directory, which includes options for selinux etc. that are necessary for successful booting with this release of Pidora.
After booting into Pidora 19, I encountered the same frustrating ‘missing repo server’ problem that plagued the initial release of Pidora 18. However, after about 6 hours, the server came back online again. You will find there are several version mismatches, as this alpha release includes several Pidora 18 apps, but this is -after all – only an Alpha release.
Hopefully the Pidora release cycle will be able to catch up with mainstream Fedora, which is soon to release Fedora 20 (which I am already running successfully on all my x86_64 systems).
Robert Gadsdon November 11, 2013.
I am a Pidora entusiast, and make rpms for Ham radio in arm6vhl.
The aplha was dissapointing so far in that;
1. first boot RESIZE did not work
Missing requires in packages and incomplete repository support.
No ftdi kernel support and generally a bad kernel.
I gave up and will wait for beta…..: fingers crossed.
Adrian … vk4tux
I was going to give up on Pidora 19 ‘Alpha’, but the repo server came back online after a while, and – so far – has remained available..
My install (on SD Card) was not too bad, but I run my root on an external USB stick, as the SD Card connection is just too flimsy.. I moved the root filesystem to USB after the install had run, so did not worry about the ‘resize’. The initial Pidora 3.11 kernel did boot OK, but their recent updated 3.12 kernel didn’t (kernel panic). I always compile my own kernels, so I got 3.12 (compiled) working OK, except for a puzzling ‘tombstone’ just after the console session was initiated.. Apart from this, everything seems to be working.. There are still old F18 versions and inconsistencies in the repo, and I hope we do not have to wait too long for the ‘Beta’..
RG.