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

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On Monday, September 9, 2019 10:29:23 AM MST Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 14:52:07 -0000,
>   vvs vvs <vvs009@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >May be there are more interested people that we know, but they are not
> >reading that list. There will just be just every man for himself and
> >Fedora has failed to recognize that.
 
> >This requires time and effort too. Nobody will appear just by a miracle. I
> >recognize that there is much less people interested in this architecture
> >but it's much more than zero.
> 
> I'm probably one of the few people still running Fedora on a machine that 
> uses i686, that can't use x86_64. The machine is around 15 years old and is
>  costly to get replacement parts for and I'm running out of spares. I was
> supposed to replace the machine last month, but needed another month to
> save up enough to buy the rest of the replacement. I've actually work with
> upstream to get kernel bugs fixed for this machine.
> 
> Unfortunately I run rawhide and things got shut down a little sooner 
> than I hoped, so I'm not getting updates right now and don't want to go 
> back to f30 with the short horizon for retirement (though I did grab an 
> f30 kernel).
> 
> I don't think you are going to find many people who both run Fedora and 
> have to use i686.
> 
> There is a cost to keeping things running on i686 and it doesn't look like 
> it is worth paying right now. And things are looking to get worse rather
> than better.
> 
> You have options. You can switch to another distro that will support i686 
> for a while yet. Use f30 until it's EOL (or beyond if the machines are 
> isolated). Or maintain your own distro. The tools for Fedora are open, 
> so you could set up your own koji instance drawing from Fedora and applying
>  your fixes where needed. Getting started will probably be hard, but once
> things are running you'll be OK until there is a key bug you can't get
> fixed.

There are at least 4 people in this thread alone that are running Fedora on 
x86 systems.

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