On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:51:15 +0100
Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
right, that could perhaps do it for i686 too. IIRC it was ppc64p7
"subarch", likely in the RHEL-6 days and there was some handling in
rpm (the tool) so ppc64 and ppc64p7 were considered compatible, but
with ppc64p7 preferred on Power7 hw. And even more IIRC similar
mechanism might had been used ages ago for building i586 kernels when
i386 was the default, but that might predate koji :-) Although there
might be an issue how the buildroot would be constructed, the ppc64p7
builds were separate buildArch tasks. Not sure if the buildroots were
clean ppc64 and they just produced ppc64p7 rpms or if they mixed ppc64
and ppc64p7 ...
Dan
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