On 4/15/25 12:21 PM, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 18:14 Stephen Smoogen <ssmoo...@redhat.com
> <mailto:ssmoo...@redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 12:10, Daniel P. Berrangé
>     <berra...@redhat.com <mailto:berra...@redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:43:38AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>         >
>         > Has anyone gone through the effort of removing i686 from a
>         wide reaching
>         > non-leaf package? Any advice appreciated
> 
>         Can we just stop building for i686 in Fedora in general, instead
>         of burning
>         maintainer time figuring out deps problems like this... ? What's the
>         blocker and how much longer do we have to put up with its burden
>         in Fedora ?
> 
> 
>     The blocker is someone making a Change Request and then going to the
>     Fedora 43 CR meetings with FESCO :). I think the only blocker has
>     been Steam games.
> 
> 
> Steam is mostly a solved problem with the Steam Flatpak on Flathub.
> ("But boohoo, I want to use the RPM" - I don't care. Valve should make a
> 64-bit compatible client already, it's 2025.)
> 
> The only remaining blocker from official Fedora repos, is - to my
> knowledge - wine, which pulls in 32-bit multilib libraries on x86_64. 
> 
> With work progressing in Wine upstream to make it possible to run 32-bit
> Wine programs with only 64-bit Linux userspace, that will go away soon
> (hopefully).
> 
> I had planned to file a change proposal for dropping i686 architecture
> support entirely as soon as that is possible.

Given downthread mails, it sounds like this is still unsettled. So I'll
jump in here with a question for the thread:

If we eventually need to add equivalent of `ExcludeArch: %{ix86}` to
qemu, what are the practical impacts?

+ For every i686 package with `BuildRequires: qemu*`, or `Requires:
qemu*` somewhere in its BuildRequires depchain:
  + archful packages are now FTBFS, these need to exclude i686 or adjust
    deps
  + noarch packages unaffected?

+ For every i686 package with `Requires: qemu*` in its dep chain:
  + do we get FailsToInstall bugs filed for i686? archful and noarch?


Anything I'm missing?

Thanks,
Cole

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