Re: i686 as secondary arch?

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:09:46AM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What clients are requesting from MirrorManager can also be seen here:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/statistics/2016-07-05/archs

More than I thought it would be.  I guess it wouldn't make sense to
move i686 to a secondary arch while other secondary arches that might
become primary (eg. aarch64) are still at far smaller numbers.

Rich.

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