On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 05:23:24PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > If we only want to build a small subset of packages as i686, then > > rather than doing it as an architecture in koji, IMHO, we could > > consider doing it as cross-compiled target, creating sub-RPMs > > from the native x86_64 package, as we do with the mingw packages > > for example. That could potentially eliminate pretty all of the > > rel-eng and infrastructure burden, and ensure package maintainer > > burden is strictly confined to where its needed. > > It is an attractive idea, but can the packages > do that, and still perform appropriate QA > and development and debugging (as needed)? > > Cross compile can certainly be used for > targeted packages, but I am not sure it > solves the general problem of how big > the core set of libraries are, and their > dependencies going all the way down. > However, I will be quite happy to know > I am overthinking the potential issues.
Well the set of mingw packages we provide is pretty huge, with many layers of dependencies down to the base C runtime. Conceptually it isn't difficult work, just time consuming to get the minimal viable set of packages working, and a further maint burden. Initally mingw was completely separate from native, but we ultimately concluded that in most cases it is less work to have mingw be a sub-RPM of the native package (at the discretion of the native pkg maintainer to accept or reject). IMHO, if people care about the 32-bit Steam use case are willing to invest the time in creating the cross-built i686 packages, it is an approach to seriously evaluate. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ 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
