Re: F37 Change: Encourage Dropping Unused / Leaf Packages on i686 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 01:55:47PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Rather than churn 20,000+ packages (plus add a new requirement for every
> new package to include an ExcludeArch), why not address this at the
> build system?
> 
> Writing a script to generate a list of the buildroot plus multilib
> packages, then find all the necessary source packages for those and
> their build dependencies, should not be that hard.  I don't know how
> difficult it would be to then hook that in as a filter to the i686 build
> system, hopefully not too difficult?

I would think it would be quite a lot of work because it's trying to
make koji do something in a way that it's really not currently designed
for. 

If folks are willing to put in the work, I'm sure we would be happy to
use it once it's available upstream. 

> I don't know how the current list of provided multilib packages is
> created though.  

It's created by pungi / python-multilib at compose time using a number
of rules and allow and block lists.

> I'd probably start with the above script querying all
> i686.rpm packages in the x86_64 repo (and working through their source
> packages, and those packages' build deps), and if the i686.rpm list is
> slimmed down, the above script would trim the deps automatically.
> 
> Then rather than churn almost every package in the distribution, current
> and future, fix it in one place.  That place can then be updated as
> needed.

I'm not sure this is going to be at all as easy as that. 

:( 

kevin

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