Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:52:50AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Could you explain a bit more how this (keeps) working? I think my
> mental model of how Fedora repositories work in the case of multilib
> devel packages is a bit flawed. At first I assumed that this suggestion
> would kill that. Because I was under the impression that it worked by
> having the i386 repository be part of the x86_64 package repository. So
> removing the i686 repositories would mean removing all 32bit packages
> from x86_64. But from your explanation above it seems that is not how
> it works. So if there are no i686 repositories, then where/how do the
> 32bit multilib packages come from?
> 
> I think I am mixing up buildroots, koji targets, repositories in my
> mind.

Let me second that request. It would be great if somebody could
summarize the steps that lead to 32bit packages being installable on
amd64 machines. I know how the beginning (compilation in the
appropriate chroot), and the end (dnf install foo.i686), but the
middle is hazy.

> For example I maintain two packages that provide 32bit multilib
> binaries. They are produced by the i686 koji target. Then elfutils-
> devel.i686 (to create 32bit multilib binaries) and valgrind.i686 (to
> run 32bit multilib binaries) are provided to the user because the i686
> repository is part of the x86_64 repository (if I understand things
> correctly). Will this just keep working, or will I have to make changes
> to my packages to keep this working after the disappearance of the i686
> repository?

Zbyszek
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