CENTOS7: Gnome Desktop for Pi2 (xorg-x11-server package Missing)

Question

It was recently announced support for GNOME 3.14 and KDE 4.14 desktop environments, X.Org Server 1.17 display server"

http://news.softpedia.com/news/centos-7-linux-officially-released-for-raspberry-pi-2-banana-pi-and-cubietruck-497891.shtml (shows a desktop image)

But then I came by https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=55708 that says it is not in the build.

When I install all

I get

startx
xauth:  file /root/.serverauth.9555 does not exist

xinit: unable to run server "/usr/bin/X": No such file or directory
Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path and
that "/usr/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of server
for your display.  Possible server names include:

Xorg        Common X server for most displays
Xvfb        Virtual frame buffer
Xfake       kdrive-based virtual frame buffer
Xnest       X server nested in a window on another X server
Xephyr      kdrive-based nested X server
Xvnc        X server accessed over VNC's RFB protocol
Xdmx        Distributed Multi-head X server

Attempt at install:

Update PI

yum -y update

Install GNOME

yum groupinstall x11 legacy-x yum groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts" yum install xterm yum groupinstall gnome yum install xorg-x11-server*

Still nothing file /usr/bin/X does not exist

(on PI)
yum search xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Warning: No matches found for: xorg-x11-server-Xorg
No matches found


On 6.7 Centos x64 box install:
 yum search xorg-x11-server-Xorg
 xorg-x11-server-Xorg.x86_64 : Xorg X server

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Answer 1

Did you read the last comment in the CentOS forum thread you linked to? It's from the CentOS Arm32 maintainer Fabian Arrotin:

At the moment, we just built "Minimal" images, as that was the first goal and lot of people wanted to run those in "appliance" mode. While we have built almost the whole distro, some packages failed to build , and the "desktop" role was not tested for armhfp/armv7hl If you're interested in having a look at this, and contribute, feel free to browse the build logs (http://armv7.dev.centos.org/report.html) and join the centos arm-dev list (https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev)

So your options if you want X on CentOS for Raspberry Pi is to either wait or help the project.

You can find the actual X server here: http://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c71511-pass-1/xorg-x11-server/1.17.2-10.el7/armv7hl/ but it depends on libGL and libgbm that are part of mesa, which in turn is listed among the non-built packages at http://armv7.dev.centos.org/report.html