On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 4:10 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Noi686Repositories > > (Ben is on vacation, so I announcing this on his behalf.) > > == Summary == > > Stop producing and distributing the Modular and Everything i686 repositories. > > == Owner == > > * Name: Kevin Fenzi > * Email: ke...@scrye.com > > == Current status == > * Targeted release: [[Releases/31| Fedora 31 ]] > * Last updated: <!-- this is an automatic macro — you don't need to change > this > line --> {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}} > * Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler> > * Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler> > > == Detailed Description == > > With the dropping of the i686 kernel package it's no longer possible to > directly > install Fedora 31 or later on i686 hardware, however, it is still possibly to > upgrade older releases as long as we continue to provide a repository. This > will > leave those users with an old possibly vulnerable kernel installed. > > The only other use/need for the repostories is to allow maintainers to debug > and > test fixes for multilib shipped packages, but the koji buildroot repo can be > used for this use case. > > == Benefit to Fedora == > > * users won't try and upgrade old i686 installs with insecure kernels. > * compose times will be decreased (no more gathering i686 packages up and > running createrepo on them). > * Updates push times will be reduced. > * disk size on mirrors will be reduced. > > == Scope == > * Proposal owners: > > ** modify pungi-fedora to no longer produce i386 repo for Everything and > Modular, modify bodhi config for f31+ to not make i386 repos for > updates/updates-testing. > ** modify mock to use the koji buildroot for i686 for f31+ for those few users > that need to build i686 packages locally. > > * Other developers: n/a > > * Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issues 8529] > > == Upgrade/compatibility impact == > > i686 users will not be able to upgrade, and will have to move to another > supported arch. >
This will also make it impossible for people to locally do multilib build/installs. It will remove COPR’s ability to do the same. For that reason alone, I don’t particularly want this change to happen. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
