Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-21 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Friday, September 13, 2019 1:57:05 AM MST Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 9/13/19 1:38 AM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > But there should be some reason for that lack of interested volunteers in > > Fedora. Right now I'm looking at stats for other distributions which are > > not going to drop i686 any time

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-15 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
Hello Nicolas, On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:51 AM Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > Well... I don't qualify as a person with much free time but... > > I'm toying with kernel-longterm in a copr for .4.19 branch, and I've > enabled i686 there. > The rebuilt is a semi-automated way. > This i686 build is

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-13 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
Le ven. 13 sept. 2019 à 11:44, Dridi Boukelmoune a écrit : > > > Maybe in other distros, people interested in i686 support actually do > > something about it instead of talking and talking and talking about it > > on mailing lists? > > Maybe someone with so much free time on their hands could

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-13 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> Maybe in other distros, people interested in i686 support actually do > something about it instead of talking and talking and talking about it > on mailing lists? Maybe someone with so much free time on their hands could maintain such a kernel in Fedora by applying downstream packages of such a

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-13 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 9/13/19 1:38 AM, vvs vvs wrote: But there should be some reason for that lack of interested volunteers in Fedora. Right now I'm looking at stats for other distributions which are not going to drop i686 any time soon, e.g. Debian, NixOS, Gentoo. There must me some very fundamental

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-12 Thread vvs vvs
But there should be some reason for that lack of interested volunteers in Fedora. Right now I'm looking at stats for other distributions which are not going to drop i686 any time soon, e.g. Debian, NixOS, Gentoo. There must me some very fundamental difference with how they operate. Of course

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-12 Thread Simon Farnsworth
> On 11 Sep 2019, at 21:03, vvs vvs wrote: > > Yes, that's understandable. But this is beating of a dead horse. > > But what matters now is that by doing some small investigation i686 users can > still get support for their bugs which are common for both platforms. This > doesn't require any

F31+ i386 chroots build against Koji buildroots [was Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories]

2019-09-12 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 3:23:29 PM CEST Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Dne 09. 09. 19 v 21:01 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): > > The koji buildroot repo will continue to be available if you want to > > copy something, but as far as work to be done to move back to > > distributing a i686 set of trees? I

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread vvs vvs
Yes, that's understandable. But this is beating of a dead horse. But what matters now is that by doing some small investigation i686 users can still get support for their bugs which are common for both platforms. This doesn't require any formalities like SIG or commitments which they can't make

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On 11 Sep 2019, at 16:12, vvs vvs wrote: > > Even better. That means that you can still get support for x86 but it will > require some more work on the user's side. They should just check if that bug > is indeed i686 specific. > > I believe that all that argument for the lats three days was

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread vvs vvs
I did test some of these desktops in the past. From my experience LXDT should be just fine. Anyway, thanks for reminding me, because I was so used to standard Fedora desktop that completely forgot about such alternatives. ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread stan via devel
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:41:14 -0400 Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > Wait---so you are using 32-bit Gnome on a 64-bit capable CPU running > 64-bit kernel? If the reason is to save 200MB of memory, you should > definitely try one of the memory-thrifty desktop environments like > xfce. > >

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Leigh Scott
> We need to drop 32-bit packages, except needed to run Steam and Wine32. Why should I bother helping to keep steam alive?, perhaps the gamers should allocate some of their gaming time to keeping i686 alive. ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread vvs vvs
Even better. That means that you can still get support for x86 but it will require some more work on the user's side. They should just check if that bug is indeed i686 specific. I believe that all that argument for the lats three days was completely unnecessary and should be blamed on an

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread vvs vvs
And even that might not be necessary at all because most bugs are common between 32 and 64-bit. Honestly, I don't think such SIG was really needed after all. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:28:13PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > But that's actually the same that I was trying to say. Meeting that > activity statistics is the essence of such formal group. But grass-roots > enthusiasts don't have such commitments. They can do some work > occasionally if time allows

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Justin Forbes
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:51 AM John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:28:31 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 9/10/19 11:01 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > > >> Sure there are... from the

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/11/19 12:50 AM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:28:31 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: It's not incorrect. Almost all x86 hardware is 64-bit capable, therefore building a 32-bit is of very limited use. It is not easy to find 32-bit only CPUs now. Yes, I know some

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 12:28:31 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/10/19 11:01 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > >> Sure there are... from the change page: > >> > >> > >> > >> "The i686 kernel is of limited use as

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/10/19 11:01 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: Sure there are... from the change page: "The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x86 hardware supports 64bit these days. It has been in a status of "community supported" for

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/10/19 4:28 PM, vvs vvs wrote: But that's actually the same that I was trying to say. Meeting that activity statistics is the essence of such formal group. But grass-roots enthusiasts don't have such commitments. They can do some work occasionally if time allows but there is no strict

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/10/19 11:48 PM, drago01 wrote: On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, John M. Harris Jr. mailto:joh...@splentity.com>> wrote: Compiling his app as 32 bit would require 32 bit repositories for the libraries he plans on linking. Multilib is still supported so libraries are present in the

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread drago01
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:41:14 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel > wrote: > > On 9/10/19 7:55 AM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > > > Did I? I thought that I've said that I'm using x86_64 kernel right now > and > > > that I have my

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:41:14 PM MST Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 9/10/19 7:55 AM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > Did I? I thought that I've said that I'm using x86_64 kernel right now and > > that I have my memory stretched to the limits already. > > > > > > > But yes, I've

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:54:50 AM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 9/9/19 9:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > There's no reason to drop x86 kernel builds either. > > Sure there are... from the change page: > > "The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x86 hardware supports 64bit > these

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread vvs vvs
But that's actually the same that I was trying to say. Meeting that activity statistics is the essence of such formal group. But grass-roots enthusiasts don't have such commitments. They can do some work occasionally if time allows but there is no strict agenda. This contradicts those

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* vvs vvs [10/09/2019 21:07] : > > I suppose that SIG is a much formal entity than just a bunch of > individuals performing some non-regular activities. The PHP SIG is barely more than one person, the Perl SIG has no regular meeting and the mailing list activity is not representative of the work

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread vvs vvs
Yes, I've already answered that. It's surely possible, but my experience shows that putting too much efforts in a too broad customization doesn't pay off in the end. Every time you'll upgrade to a new version it breaks. As for using another desktop, I should seriously consider it. Probably I

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread vvs vvs
No, of course I didn't mean that it was some random developer's fault. By "the project" I definitely meant PR and HR in a broad sense. Expecting such casual participants like me to self-organize is a wild idea. Even placing some advertisement on Fedora's landing page would be a big help. I

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 9/10/19 7:55 AM, vvs vvs wrote: Did I? I thought that I've said that I'm using x86_64 kernel right now and that I have my memory stretched to the limits already. But yes, I've experimented with x86_64 userland some time ago, I don't remember exact numbers but I think that I've lost 100-200

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 9/10/19 12:08 PM, vvs vvs wrote: >> You are welcome to use the koji buildroot repo for that. >> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/f30-build/latest > > Thanks. That would be just splendid, but won't it cease to exist after Fedora > 30 EOL? Then it's just a temporary workaround. Yes,

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread vvs vvs
> You are welcome to use the koji buildroot repo for that. > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/f30-build/latest Thanks. That would be just splendid, but won't it cease to exist after Fedora 30 EOL? Then it's just a temporary workaround. ___

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* vvs vvs [10/09/2019 11:41] : > > And the primary reason why that SIG initiative never worked is that the > project didn't put any significant efforts to make that happen. I'm going to disagree with you here. Back in 2017, we went through a very long discussion which lead to the creation of the

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 9/9/19 2:15 PM, vvs vvs wrote: > And why people are not reading all the answers? That was a rhethorical > question. > > I said it already several times, that I don't need volunteers to fix things > for me! I just need an already built repository which I could just use and > fix things

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 9/9/19 9:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > There's no reason to drop x86 kernel builds either. Sure there are... from the change page: "The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x86 hardware supports 64bit these days. It has been in a status of "community supported" for several Fedora

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 09. 09. 19 v 21:01 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): > The koji buildroot repo will continue to be available if you want to > copy something, but as far as work to be done to move back to > distributing a i686 set of trees? I guess doing the release blocking > tests on i686 at Beta and Final might be a

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Franta Hanzlík
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:00:52 -0400 Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:24 AM John M. Harris Jr. > wrote: > > > > On Monday, September 9, 2019 10:29:23 AM MST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 14:52:07 -, > > > vvs vvs wrote: > > > > [...] > > >

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:24 AM John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > On Monday, September 9, 2019 10:29:23 AM MST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 14:52:07 -, > > vvs vvs wrote: > > > > >May be there are more interested people that we know, but they are not > > >reading that

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread vvs vvs
Did I? I thought that I've said that I'm using x86_64 kernel right now and that I have my memory stretched to the limits already. But yes, I've experimented with x86_64 userland some time ago, I don't remember exact numbers but I think that I've lost 100-200 MB of memory. And I have not much

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread vvs vvs
Thanks. I wouldn't say there is a "hostility" here. It might be hubris at a time, but mostly indifference. Though, that might frustrate anyone as well. It's good to know that there are people like you here. But I'm afraid that the cost of bureaucratic barriers is too high for any single

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Tuesday, 10 September 2019 at 06:46, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: [...] > While most users on Intel/AMD based systems are now running x64 > kernels, I might agree with the above... > most proprietary software released for various GNU/Linux distros are > 32 bit. ... but not with this. Most of

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-10 Thread Leigh Scott
> On 9/9/19 12:47 PM, vvs vvs wrote: > > > Having read the thread, you seem to miss the point that's been > repeatedly made: the packages occasionally fail to build, and someone > has to fix them.  That act, fixing packages when they don't build is the > "support" that someone has to provide.

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 12:44:42 PM MST DJ Delorie wrote: > "vvs vvs" writes: > > > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of > > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame > > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. > > > I think you're

Re: [EXT] Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 1:00:51 PM MST Anderson, Charles R wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:57:20PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > > > Well, thanks for sharing. > > > > I'm not complaining that nobody wants to fix things for me. I'm > > complaining because there is no possibility to fix things

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 12:09:49 PM MST vvs vvs wrote: > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of them then > I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame myself. Thanks > for explaining it to me. Please don't let the hostilities of this list get to

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 11:58:08 AM MST vvs vvs wrote: > I would argue that it might be difficult to distinguish work needed to find > out if it was i686 specific when there already is similar bug on x86_64. > Also, it's difficult to rate bug importance for most users. As I've already > said

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 8:36:45 AM MST vvs vvs wrote: > There is no either right or wrong stance here. We are discussing possible > alternatives to "just drop it" attitude. > What work should be done? Please, be more specific. Right now I'm running a > i686 userland and it works. If I would

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 10:29:23 AM MST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 14:52:07 -, > vvs vvs wrote: > > >May be there are more interested people that we know, but they are not > >reading that list. There will just be just every man for himself and > >Fedora has

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 6:42:35 AM MST Solomon Peachy wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:22:46AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > The system I'm sending this email from only has 4 GiB of memory in > > total. Does that mean that this system makes ASLR completely > > ineffective? Should

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/9/19 3:35 PM, vvs vvs wrote: I didn't answered your other question because I've answered the same question several times already. Yes, I have a use cases where I'll get a severe performance hit if I was not careful. And this is related to available memory and swapping. And I can't afford

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Josh Stone
On 9/9/19 3:35 PM, vvs vvs wrote: > So, you are insisting that Koji just doesn't work without any assistance? And > that it's impossible to build a separate i686 repository without affecting > all others? We used to build secondary architectures separately, using koji-shadow to chase the

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Oh, brother... So, you are insisting that Koji just doesn't work without any assistance? And that it's impossible to build a separate i686 repository without affecting all others? And that you can't exclude that architecture for a specific package? If that's the case then it's very different

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/9/19 2:15 PM, vvs vvs wrote: I said it already several times, that I don't need volunteers to fix things for me! I just need an already built repository which I could just use and fix things myself if needed. But Fedora is refusing to provide such repository which was built automatically

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
And if I don't use those packages, then why should I be unable to use everything else just because there are some small problems? Especially because there are not much users of that architecture anyway. That happens all the time already and I see no big problem with that. If these packages

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
And why people are not reading all the answers? That was a rhethorical question. I said it already several times, that I don't need volunteers to fix things for me! I just need an already built repository which I could just use and fix things myself if needed. But Fedora is refusing to provide

Re: [EXT] Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
And I thought that should be obvious, silly me. Just kidding. Of course I would do it if there were no better choice. I'm just struggling to find out if there is no other possibility whatsoever. There might be reasons why Fedora is just unable to keep it updated that I don't know. And of course

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/9/19 12:47 PM, vvs vvs wrote: I don't even know anyone whom I could address. I'm already spent too much time on that list trying to convince everyone that I'm ready to take all the burden of using unsupported packages, but was told that it's against Fedora policies. What much could I do?

Re: [EXT] Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:57:20PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > Well, thanks for sharing. > > I'm not complaining that nobody wants to fix things for me. I'm complaining > because there is no possibility to fix things myself. After removing i686 > repository I'm either should start building it

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Well, thanks for sharing. I'm not complaining that nobody wants to fix things for me. I'm complaining because there is no possibility to fix things myself. After removing i686 repository I'm either should start building it myself or switch to another distribution. I'm not trying to hurt

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
I don't even know anyone whom I could address. I'm already spent too much time on that list trying to convince everyone that I'm ready to take all the burden of using unsupported packages, but was told that it's against Fedora policies. What much could I do? As for using i686 userland just

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread DJ Delorie
"vvs vvs" writes: > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. I think you're overreacting a bit, but there is some truth in this. Fedora is created and

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/9/19 11:15 AM, vvs vvs wrote: BTW, that just means that Fedora is refusing to provide much needed services even to a people who are ready to accept most of that support burden themselves and I'm one of them. I don't understand how you keep completely missing the point. No one is

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
I don't have time to search for it right now, but there is a law which states that no matter how much resources you already get they will be stretched thin anyway. I did upgrades many times but every time it was proved that it still wasn't enough. It's a useless rat race. We have much more

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/9/19 11:47 AM, Martin Kolman wrote: Yeah, I've recently switched an old Atom A330[0] based system[1] with 2 GB of RAM (that's the maximum it supports) from a 32-bit to a 64-bit based distro (after finding out it can actually run 64-bit code). It has been running just fine and actually

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 19:01:59 -, vvs vvs wrote: No, I don't think so. I'm using some (non Fedora related) applications which use every bit of available memory. It's a bit stressed just as it is, but losing additional couple of megabytes for no useful reason will be too much a hit.

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:09:49PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. If I may quote from the landing page on

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:01:59PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > No, I don't think so. I'm using some (non Fedora related) applications > which use every bit of available memory. It's a bit stressed just as > it is, but losing additional couple of megabytes for no useful reason > will be too much a

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 08:47:24PM +0200, Martin Kolman wrote: > Yeah, I've recently switched an old Atom A330[0] based system[1] with > 2 GB of RAM (that's the maximum it supports) from a 32-bit to a 64-bit > based distro (after finding out it can actually run 64-bit code). It > has been

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
In the interests of not making this thread a bunch longer, I am just going to answer a number of things here in one place. On 9/7/19 11:44 AM, Victor V. Shkamerda wrote: > I totally agree with that view. Making such decisions without public > discussion is not respecting user's freedom of

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
No, I don't think so. I'm using some (non Fedora related) applications which use every bit of available memory. It's a bit stressed just as it is, but losing additional couple of megabytes for no useful reason will be too much a hit. And I can't change their code, because that codebase is big

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
I would argue that it might be difficult to distinguish work needed to find out if it was i686 specific when there already is similar bug on x86_64. Also, it's difficult to rate bug importance for most users. As I've already said that I was completely satisfied with the status quo and it was a

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Martin Kolman
On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 13:27 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 18:06:02 -, > vvs vvs wrote: > > Yes, thanks. Sadly, I see that I have no choice but to switch to another > > distribution even though I'm using 64-bit > > CPU. It's just that the memory can't be upgraded

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:23:18PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > But how do you now that I'm not fixed it myself and forgot to post on > that list? Or that I'm even just used to live with that bug and just > don't want to spend all my time chasing it? It's simple; if you (and everyone else) doesn't

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 18:23:18 -, vvs vvs wrote: Anyway, I'm not expecting that something will change because of that discussion. It is just bad that the interests of users are of a lower priority then some purely bureaucratic reasons. It isn't happening because of bureaucratic

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 18:06:02 -, vvs vvs wrote: Yes, thanks. Sadly, I see that I have no choice but to switch to another distribution even though I'm using 64-bit CPU. It's just that the memory can't be upgraded and buying new computer just to keep running Fedora is not viable. It's

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
But how do you now that I'm not fixed it myself and forgot to post on that list? Or that I'm even just used to live with that bug and just don't want to spend all my time chasing it? I'm pretty sure that I can point point out bugs in official Fedora repository that were dormant for several

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 17:55:06 -, vvs vvs wrote: First of all thanks for the link. It just proves that the SIG's expectations were too high. If I understand it all correctly, the main reason to drop i686 repo was the mailing list inactivity? Is that right? So everyone interested in

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Thanks for the suggestion. But I'm sure that I don't need so much bureaucracy just to run my little errands. If that's how Fedora is operated, than it won't make much difference for me to just using another distribution. BTW, that just means that Fedora is refusing to provide much needed

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 05:55:06PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > If I understand it all correctly, the main reason to drop i686 repo > was the mailing list inactivity? Is that right? So everyone interested > in that architecture is now deprived from using it on Fedora because > some formalities were

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Yes, thanks. Sadly, I see that I have no choice but to switch to another distribution even though I'm using 64-bit CPU. It's just that the memory can't be upgraded and buying new computer just to keep running Fedora is not viable. It's 12 years old, is in good condition and I'm completely

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
First of all thanks for the link. It just proves that the SIG's expectations were too high. If I understand it all correctly, the main reason to drop i686 repo was the mailing list inactivity? Is that right? So everyone interested in that architecture is now deprived from using it on Fedora

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 14:52:07 -, vvs vvs wrote: May be there are more interested people that we know, but they are not reading that list. There will just be just every man for himself and Fedora has failed to recognize that. This requires time and effort too. Nobody will appear just

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 03:36:45PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > > What work should be done? Please, be more specific. Deja vu… please read https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1737 (Proposal: i686 SIG needs to be functional by F27 release date or we drop i686 kernel from F28) with all the links. --

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Jiri Eischmann
vvs vvs píše v Po 09. 09. 2019 v 15:44 +: > I'm happy with any support no matter how it is defined. In fact I > didn't get very much support from Fedora either over more than 20 > years, so my expectations are quite low. You seem to have a rather narrow view of support. It's not just someone

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
No I didn't, but I must be sure that you speak on behalf of everyone before making my choices. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
So, if I'd start to use Debian i686 instead of Fedora or will use ARM32 device instead of ARM64 the world will be a safer place? Also, I was told that maintaining i686 Fedora code base myself would be fine, but in the same time I'm told that it's not acceptable from the safety point of view.

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 03:44:49PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > If there is something more relevant than freedom of choice, then there > is no point arguing further, because I value community relations over > any technical reasons. You seem to forget that "freedom of choice" also applies to those

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
I'm happy with any support no matter how it is defined. In fact I didn't get very much support from Fedora either over more than 20 years, so my expectations are quite low. If there is something more relevant than freedom of choice, then there is no point arguing further, because I value

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
There is no either right or wrong stance here. We are discussing possible alternatives to "just drop it" attitude. What work should be done? Please, be more specific. Right now I'm running a i686 userland and it works. If I would be able to build the whole repository myself I'm pretty sure

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 02:41:15PM -, vvs vvs wrote: > OTOH, if Debian has resources to maintain the support for at least > next five years it means one of two things: either they have more > resources than Fedora, or something is wrong with your assessment. Or (3) Debian defines "support"

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
- Original Message - > From: "vvs vvs" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Monday, September 9, 2019 4:52:07 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 > Repositories > > May be there are more

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
I will do whatever I can and it's not much for ANY architecture, x86_64 is not an exception. That's because I'm not very young and have a lot of other more important activities which is not related to computers. That said, I'm not expecting very much in return either. If it would somehow work

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
May be there are more interested people that we know, but they are not reading that list. There will just be just every man for himself and Fedora has failed to recognize that. This requires time and effort too. Nobody will appear just by a miracle. I recognize that there is much less people

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Ok, if that's so hard then I'm apologize for not recognizing the pain. OTOH, if Debian has resources to maintain the support for at least next five years it means one of two things: either they have more resources than Fedora, or something is wrong with your assessment. I'd help with

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 9/9/19 9:28 AM, vvs vvs wrote: Boy, am I glad you've said that. I was waiting for it. But looks like you are mistaken. First of all, it's not one, but at least two of them. Second, nobody else seems to be supporting your point. E-mails to this list don't get work done. Code commits get

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread vvs vvs
Boy, am I glad you've said that. I was waiting for it. But looks like you are mistaken. First of all, it's not one, but at least two of them. Second, nobody else seems to be supporting your point. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:22:46AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > The system I'm sending this email from only has 4 GiB of memory in > total. Does that mean that this system makes ASLR completely > ineffective? Should this arch also be removed from Fedora, because of > that? *Address

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Monday, September 9, 2019 5:16:23 AM MST Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 9/9/19 1:47 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote: > > > ASLR has nothing to do with the wild claims made in that email, that > > having an x86 system will somehow taint or 'infect' other systems. > > Additionally, you

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* John M. Harris, Jr.: > ASLR has nothing to do with the wild claims made in that email, that > having an x86 system will somehow taint or 'infect' other > systems. Additionally, you don't need to run a 64 bit system to get > ASLR. I'm not saying that the analogy is appropriate, but it is just

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