On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 09:45:29AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 5 July 2016 at 06:46, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 07/05/2016 11:09 AM, Adrian Reber wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Timely article in the Register today: > >>>> > >>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/linux_letting_go_32bit_builds_on_the_way_out/ > >>>> > >>>> I've been thinking about this as i686 is so often broken that I've now > >>>> stopped bothering to test it in the libguestfs tests that I do on > >>>> Rawhide: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/libguestfs.git/commit/?id=aa63cef2d7679e1906551ef4e46c2e9a8861b56c > >>>> > >>>> If you need to run an i686 virtual machine based on Rawhide, my > >>>> experience is that it's more likely than not that it won't boot, and > >>>> no one cares. > >>>> > >>>> Do we have stats for the relative proportion of i686 vs x86-64 > >>>> downloads? > >>> > >>> > >>> No really because of mirrors etc, but mirror manager stats from Feb > >>> (FPL DevConf talk) list i686 as around 20% unique IP hits, that > >>> doesn't take into account proxies/NAT using same IP etc. > >> > >> > >> What clients are requesting from MirrorManager can also be seen here: > >> > >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/statistics/2016-07-05/archs > > > > > > These statistics do not cover package downloads of i686 packages which are > > part of the x86_64 repositories, do they? > > > > I think the numbers are also skewed by the fact that EPEL 7 is not available > > for i686, which is not of direct relevance to Fedora. (The reason why it's > > missing is not lack of demand, but lack of a publicly available build root > > for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on i686.) > > > > Here is a graph for just Fedora OS from time immemorial of Fedora > using a 7 day moving average. > > https://smooge.fedorapeople.org/simple_stats/fedora-hardware-full-ma.png
Interesting. It seems that i386 has leveled off, with changes smaller than noise during last 1.5 years. It seems that if nothing changes, i386 downloads will remain a significant percentage. Also the dynamics of amd64 are very nice, with a visible inflex at the beginning of 2015. This matches the information publicized elsewhere about Fedora becoming more popular. Zbyszek > > I hope this is helpful.. [I am working on ways to make this available > regularly but am up to my neck in spam accounts so don;'t expect > soon.] -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
