On 5 July 2016 at 06:46, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/05/2016 11:09 AM, 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 > > > These statistics do not cover package downloads of i686 packages which are > part of the x86_64 repositories, do they? > > I think the numbers are also skewed by the fact that EPEL 7 is not available > for i686, which is not of direct relevance to Fedora. (The reason why it's > missing is not lack of demand, but lack of a publicly available build root > for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on i686.) > Here is a graph for just Fedora OS from time immemorial of Fedora using a 7 day moving average. https://smooge.fedorapeople.org/simple_stats/fedora-hardware-full-ma.png I hope this is helpful.. [I am working on ways to make this available regularly but am up to my neck in spam accounts so don;'t expect soon.] > Florian > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
