On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > I have thought about this when proposing the Change to make dropping > support for i686 easier. What you suggest is probably not as easy as you > think - the packages that are required for multilib purposes change over > time, and in turn the packages that are necessary to *build* those packages > are also not constant. It would be easy to end up in a situation where some > packages that are needed on i686 can no longer be built there because they > start requiring other packages that were already dropped from i686. > > Worst case scenario (if too many things were to be dropped at some point), > a re-bootstrapping of i686 might be necessary to get things into a working > state again (and I'm pretty sure at that point we might as well just turn > it off entirely because it would not be worth the effort). > > I'm hoping that we can get there in a different way: The cases where > multilib support is actually needed are going away. > > - I think koji now supports a setup where "noarch" packages are never built > on i686. Yes. It's enabled on f41/rawhide. I have not seen any problems reported on it, so perhaps we can just set it for everything now? kevin
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