On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 16:22, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, 10 May 2019 at 18:07, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > With Fedora soon to no longer build for the PPC64 platform, the ability > for > > EPEL to continue support of this platform is going to get much harder. > > I assume that's because the builders are running Fedora. What if they > were rebuilt to run RHEL7? > > The reason they are running Fedora was because various tools in the build system require them to have newer utilities than were in RHEL+EPEL. Having a set of RHEL7 builders means extra effort spent to backport tools. > > As such, it would be good to look at ending support for this platform in > > our build system when RHEL-7.7 happens. > > Pity. I was hoping to keep my ppc64 VM at OpenPowerHub alive by > rebuilding it with RHEL7 instead of Fedora. > > 1. Nothing is going to stop you. You can copy down the ppc64 packages and rebuild your EPEL packages there also. 2. This is just a proposal. The issue is that we have only so many hours in a day, are being asked to do more during those hours and to look for anything we can drop to meet those goals. This is not a zero cost on our side to keep this going, and its benefits are currently to 90 systems versus 1.5 million systems (x86_64). If it is important enough that we need to keep doing it, then we will have to find something else to drop. > With ppc64 in EPEL we had at least one big-endian arch to build for > across both Fedora (s390x) and EPEL (ppc64). Now, we're going to lose > the latter. > > I think the writing on the wall for big-endian is getting bigger and bigger these days. I would not be surprised if IBM came out with an S390le to put the last nail in. > Regards, > Dominik > -- > Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org > There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and > oppression to develop psychic muscles. > -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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