On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:53:30AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 03:05:37PM -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> > Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Since it's not practical to modify almost all Fedora packages to add
> > > "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}" to them, we'd probably need a different
> > > machanism for this. I have a vague idea:
> >
> > Is it really not? This seems the easiest way to go about it, honestly -
> > just have it be permitted for maintainers to opt their stuff out of
> > building on x86 and let the problem take care of itself recursively.
>
> Yeah, I think I'd go this way too. Instead of trying to maintain this
> centrally in koji, do it at package level, using proven-packager privileges
> to smooth the initial process.
>
> I.e. something like: OK, we don't want to build libreoffice for i686.
> libreoffice is annotated with "ExcludeArch: %{ix86}", and *at the same time*
> any packages which (transitively) BR:libreoffice, are also annotated.
> (They don't even need to be rebuild.)
> And then repeat for another "big" package.
>
> I think this way to go is OK because we mostly care about some of the
> "big" packages that take a long time to build. Most low-level packages
> build just fine on i686 so we don't care if they are built unnecessarily.
>
> And obviously the advantage is that this can be done now, and doesn't
> require any new infra or maintenance. The only trick would be how to
> figure out the transitive BR tree, but apparently there are some scripts
> that people have.
s/people/Fabio/ ;)
> Zbyszek
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