On Sunday 18 March 2007 14:43:18 David Woodhouse wrote: > This is true. I was just suggesting that we don't necessarily need to > rush out and do a mass rebuild of all Extras packages before F7 just to > create ppc64 versions of them, since those _wouldn't_ be likely to end > up in the "ppc" compose; they'd only be in the pure ppc64 tree which > isn't a product we release; it's just the same as the unshipped ia64, > s390 rawhide trees. Except that we need them to be able to build for ppc64. Every single build from the merge point on will build for our primary arches, which at this time is i386, x86_64, ppc, and ppc64. We can't selectively build things, that arch has to be one for every package unless the package decides to not build for that arch. That is part of being a primary arch. If a ppc64 build fails, the entire build fails, and will have to be fixed. Also, we've (the Fedora Board and I) have talked about actually "shipping" the full tree for each arch. We accomplish this for i386, x86_64, and ppc by nature of those composes, but we don't for ppc64. Just because we (Fedora) made one decision about what to or not to ship ppc64 doesn't mean that should be the same decision for anybody basing a distribution off of Fedora. They should have equal access to the binary packages that fall out of our buildsystem as we do, and that generally means shipping them in a directory. During rawhide we continue doing the ppc64 directory of just 64bit packages, at release time we ship a directory of them, and we continue to populate an updates directory for it. This feels like the responsible thing to do, and it only takes up a bit more space since we'd be building them anyway due to ppc(64) being a primary arch. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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