On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 22:35:04 -0700
Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:

> On 10/14/2017 07:37 PM, Franta Hanzlík wrote:
> > Hello Ralf and Jeff,
> > thank you for your answers. I finally found the repos descriptions here:
> > 
> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora-secondary/releases/26/Everything/i386/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-26-1.noarch.rpm
> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/local/fedora/26/i386/os/Packages/bellet-release-26-1.noarch.rpm
> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/remi/fedora/26/remi/i386/remi-release-26-2.fc26.remi.noarch.rpm
> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/26/Everything/i386/os/Packages/r/rpmfusion-free-release-26-1.noarch.rpm
> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/26/Everything/i386/os/Packages/r/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-26-1.noarch.rpm
> > ftp://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/26/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-3.fc26.ccrma.noarch.rpm
> >   
> 
> Or you could just go to the websites of each project where they provide 
> the release rpms.
> 
> > My troubles were especially with the determination of the places of the
> > Fedora repos itself - thanks to my error with the evaluation of the metalink
> > reference to the Fedora 26/i386 mirror list, and also because I did not find
> > mirrors on any server I used before. The explanation was simple - while
> > the metalink 
> > https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-26&arch=x86_64
> > returns 77 sites of mirrors, the metalink for i386 return only 5 (!) sites
> > - that were not the ones I was looking for.  
> 
> Why does that matter?  dnf will use the metalink and find the mirrors 
> that are available.  What are you trying to do?

I wanted to say that I was surprised that I could not find Fedora 26/i386
repos on (IMO) well-known mirror sites - and that I do not wonder now,
if there are only five of them. Nothing extra.


> > Reason why I'm using i386 arch - I have quite a number 8+ year old PCs,
> > that are quite sufficient for work and have only 0.5 - 2 GB of RAM.
> > (and although some of them should perhaps run on x86_64, I do not like
> > actual 32- and 64-bit SW mishmash on x86_64 (F26/x86_64 release has 19281
> > x86_64.rpm packages and 8200 .i[3456]86.rpm - 30%!). 10+ years ago I was
> > More than ten years ago I worked with Linux on DEC Alpha servers/ws, and
> > pure 64-bit wasn't problem - and now, 15 years later, we still sin for
> > the backward compatibility of x86_64 architecture. ;)  
> 
> You can run pure 64-bit if you want.  The 32-bit libraries are just 
> available if necessary, for example wine or various third-party 
> applications.

For most things I can do with pure 32-bit only ;)
It seems rather strange to me that if x86_64 contains 30% of i386 packages,
the i386 / i686 architecture has been moved to the secondary track.
-- 
Franta Hanzlik
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