On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Peter Robinson wrote:
We don't currently have s390x EPEL
ummm -- I think Peter is suggesting EPEL executables -- this is a solved problem The ClefOS s390x distribution has all of RHEL 6, RHEL 7, EPEL 6, EPEL 7, and more in s390x, and has had for years. Neale Ferguson (SNA) has 'banged the drum' on the product at trade shows etc, and had a nice Docker demonstration under s390x I have covered all of the s390x and z/VM mailing lists for nearly a decade on this topic, and it gets mentions at least monthly. Some may recall SNA principal David Boyes' demonstration (with Debian kit) of spinning up north of 40k instances under the older IFL model. Rich Troth (long time CMS developer) uses ClefOS, and he was over at my office earlier this month on trying to do some evangalism on how to make installations easier for people coming from 'Distributed' The initial builds were done in Hercules emulators [I started doing this probably 8 years ago, and demonstrated at the Louisville VMWorkShop five years ago], then completely re-built starting mid RHEL 6 (after the IBM EOL on older Z hardware), naively # uname -a Linux lclef01.lf-dev.marist.edu 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.s390x #1 SMP Fri Oct 27 20:15:11 EDT 2017 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux SNA hosts the primary mirror, but I anticipate getting a mirror up in higher bandwidth at Marist University (near the IBM facility at Poughkeepsie), hopefully yet this year [herrold@centos-7 ~]$ lynx -dump \ "http://mirrors.sinenomine.net/epel?releasever=7&arch=s390x&repo=epel" https://download.sinenomine.net/epel/epel-7 -- Russ herrold