On 3/16/22 10:35, Robbie Harwood wrote: > David Cantrell <dcantr...@redhat.com> writes: > >> Why? Since the removal of the i686 kernel in Fedora, we want to >> reduce the number of i686 packages provided in the repo. As time >> marches on, the ability to build a lot of things for i686 becomes >> unrealistic or even impossible. Remember it goes beyond providing >> builds...providing support, bug fixes, and security fixes for those >> packages too. Maybe some things using i686 packages now can move to >> x86_64 packages. We do not know yet, but a goal is to figure out what >> packages, if anything, can drop their i686 builds. >> >> NOTE: Nothing is changing now. We are in an information gathering >> phase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> If you use i686 packages for something now, please respond to this thread. > > Nothing that couldn't be cross-built and provided as an x86_64 package. > > I use wine, which as I understand it, requires 32-bit libraries to run > 32-bit Windows binaries. > > Given the weakness of x86 ASLR, it makes sense to ensure most of the > i686 packages aren't actually getting used (e.g., no browsers). At that > point, seems like we'd be better off not building for the arch at all, > and doing cross-builds from x86_64 for the packages that need it.
+1 on cross-compilation. Native compilation on 32-bit is a dead end. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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