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

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On 9/9/19 9:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr. wrote:
> 
> There's no reason to drop x86 kernel builds either.

Sure there are... from the change page:

"The i686 kernel is of limited use as most x86 hardware supports 64bit
these days. It has been in a status of "community supported" for several
Fedora releases now. As such, it gets very little testing, and issues
frequently appear upstream. These tend to go unnoticed for long periods
of time. When issues are found, it is often a long time before they are
fixed because they are considered low priority by most developers
upstream. This can leave other architectures waiting for important
updates, and provides a less than desirable experience for people
choosing to run a 32bit kernel. With this proposal, the i686 kernel will
no longer be built. A kernel headers package will still exist, and all
32bit packages should continue to build as normal. The main difference
is there would no longer be bootable 32bit images."

The lack of fixes for i686 kernels is slowing down all the other arches
that are supported (and thus all of fedora).

kevin

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