On 16. 11. 21 20:47, Fabio Valentini wrote:
Hi everybody, The announcement of the Change proposal to drop armv7 support with F37 has reminded me of something that I wanted to ask about some time ago: How we could work towards reducing the number of packages we build for i686. Our current approach, which is to "build everything but ship almost nothing" - just to keep x86_64 / i686 multilib working - is, frankly, very wasteful of computing and storage resources, as well as a burden on maintainers of big packages, which frequently run up against limits of 32-bit architectures. I think it should be possible to figure out a way to limit the number of packages that need to be built for the common multilib usecases (Wine + Steam ... am I forgetting something?), and just ... not build anything else for i686.
Have you seen this discussion? https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/TDDNEGF3PGCSIXITSIINUTZTFBSK4HGK/
This would probably involve the following steps: 1. determine the packages that need to be built on i686 for common multilib scenarios 2. determine recursive install-time and build-time dependencies of those packages 3. if necessary, update this list with any new build-or install-time dependencies that are added to the package set As for how to implement this, I'm not sure about the details yet (which is why I'm sending this as an RFC and not filing a Change proposal yet).
See for example my idea for implementation: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/A5II3GGIDUDVCWLRZ6AXGAA4WWJH6VSN/ However, I am not sure it is worth the trouble. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
