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 -- _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue