On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 at 15:36, Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 at 10:21, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> >> With Wine solved, it sounds like Steam is the only remaining concern. >> >> I think we could actually remove all 32-bit libraries *not* required by >> Steam for Fedora *43*. That should probably be uncontroversial, right? >> I know that doesn't do anything to help with our infrastructure >> concerns, but it will at least spare most maintainers from fixing >> 32-bit build failures. >> > > Going from all the previous infrastructure moves, the Fedora 43 schedule is > going to be dominated with the move and rebuilding of the release > infrastructure from the ground up. There are always all kinds of little > things which pop up and slow down what can be done. The next release is > usually then filled with everything that didn't get done because builds and > updates were slowed down. Removing several thousand packages in a release > would require > > 1. How are you going to remove it? Everyone add a ExcludeArch: , someone fix > koji to only allow a specific list? a shadow koji which only builds for > x86_32? etc
We used to do a special list with koji for PowerPC for packages optimised for powerv7 as a 'ppc64v7' sub arch in the ppc64 BE days, you should be able to provide a list of "end packages" and have something like the the critical path script update the full list there and populate it for i686. The functionality is in already in koji. > 2. What else is broken that comes up because of this. Removing arm32 actually > caused problems in completely unrelated parts of the build system because of > weird things. > 3. Who is going to do the work? > > I really don't see this being ready by Fedora 44 with the current 'need to > get 300+ cat-like developers to agree' that generally needs to happen. > > > > -- > Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive > Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- > Ian MacClaren > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
