Re: i686 as secondary arch?

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On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Timely article in the Register today:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/linux_letting_go_32bit_builds_on_the_way_out/
>
> I've been thinking about this as i686 is so often broken that I've now
> stopped bothering to test it in the libguestfs tests that I do on
> Rawhide:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/libguestfs.git/commit/?id=aa63cef2d7679e1906551ef4e46c2e9a8861b56c
>
> If you need to run an i686 virtual machine based on Rawhide, my
> experience is that it's more likely than not that it won't boot, and
> no one cares.
>
> Do we have stats for the relative proportion of i686 vs x86-64 downloads?

No really because of mirrors etc, but mirror manager stats from Feb
(FPL DevConf talk) list i686 as around 20% unique IP hits, that
doesn't take into account proxies/NAT using same IP etc.
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