Re: btrfs loses 32-bit application compatibility after a while

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* Demi Marie Obenour:

> On 7/17/23 09:51, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Daniel P. Berrangé:
>> 
>>>> But that still raises the question - why does it look like this
>>>> started to happen pretty suddenly around June 30?
>>>> The list of updates that were applied to builders in that timeframe
>>>> doesn't raise any alarm bells (except maybe the 6.3 kernel):
>>>> (see https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11531#comment-864471)
>>>> I read the release notes for the 6.3 kernel but didn't see any
>>>> mentions of BTRFS changes that could explain this. :(
>>>
>>> Or what 32-bit code is being run in the context of koji that is
>>> NOT compiled with LFS ?  Is this something silly like configure
>>> script tests not enabling LFS, but the resulting applications
>>> correctly using LFS ?
>> 
>> A dependency used during RPM file creation, libcap, is not fully built
>> in LFS mode.  Once we fix that, we know that we'll run into issues with
>> chkconfig and update-alternatives.  It's a never-ending source of bugs.
>> It's not a good use of maintainer time.
>> 
>> We can't change the overall distribution flags with CFLAGS injection
>> because doing so has ABI implications.
>
> Can they be changed at the next mass rebuild?

Not if we want to maintain compatibility with non-Fedora software.  It
probably doesn't matter for most packages, but doing a per-package
analysis is a lot of work.

Thanks,
Florian
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