On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 16:22, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Friday, 10 May 2019 at 18:07, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> With Fedora soon to no longer build for the PPC64 platform, the ability for
> EPEL to continue support of this platform is going to get much harder.
I assume that's because the builders are running Fedora. What if they
were rebuilt to run RHEL7?
The reason they are running Fedora was because various tools in the build system require them to have newer utilities than were in RHEL+EPEL. Having a set of RHEL7 builders means extra effort spent to backport tools.
> As such, it would be good to look at ending support for this platform in
> our build system when RHEL-7.7 happens.
Pity. I was hoping to keep my ppc64 VM at OpenPowerHub alive by
rebuilding it with RHEL7 instead of Fedora.
1. Nothing is going to stop you. You can copy down the ppc64 packages and rebuild your EPEL packages there also.
2. This is just a proposal. The issue is that we have only so many hours in a day, are being asked to do more during those hours and to look for anything we can drop to meet those goals.
This is not a zero cost on our side to keep this going, and its benefits are currently to 90 systems versus 1.5 million systems (x86_64). If it is important enough that we need to keep doing it, then we will have to find something else to drop.
With ppc64 in EPEL we had at least one big-endian arch to build for
across both Fedora (s390x) and EPEL (ppc64). Now, we're going to lose
the latter.
I think the writing on the wall for big-endian is getting bigger and bigger these days. I would not be surprised if IBM came out with an S390le to put the last nail in.
Regards,
Dominik
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