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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