On 5 July 2016 at 06:46, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 07/05/2016 11:09 AM, Adrian Reber wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Timely article in the Register today:
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/linux_letting_go_32bit_builds_on_...
>>>>
>>>> I've been thinking about this as i686 is so often broken that
I've now
>>>> stopped bothering to test it in the libguestfs tests that I do on
>>>> Rawhide:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/libguestfs.git/commit/?id=aa63cef...
>>>>
>>>> If you need to run an i686 virtual machine based on Rawhide, my
>>>> experience is that it's more likely than not that it won't boot,
and
>>>> no one cares.
>>>>
>>>> Do we have stats for the relative proportion of i686 vs x86-64
>>>> downloads?
>>>
>>>
>>> No really because of mirrors etc, but mirror manager stats from Feb
>>> (FPL DevConf talk) list i686 as around 20% unique IP hits, that
>>> doesn't take into account proxies/NAT using same IP etc.
>>
>>
>> What clients are requesting from MirrorManager can also be seen here:
>>
>>
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/statistics/2016-07-05/archs
>
>
> These statistics do not cover package downloads of i686 packages which are
> part of the x86_64 repositories, do they?
>
> I think the numbers are also skewed by the fact that EPEL 7 is not available
> for i686, which is not of direct relevance to Fedora. (The reason why it's
> missing is not lack of demand, but lack of a publicly available build root
> for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on i686.)
>
Here is a graph for just Fedora OS from time immemorial of Fedora
using a 7 day moving average.
https://smooge.fedorapeople.org/simple_stats/fedora-hardware-full-ma.png
Interesting. It seems that i386 has leveled off, with changes
smaller than noise during last 1.5 years. It seems that
if nothing changes, i386 downloads will remain a significant
percentage.
Also the dynamics of amd64 are very nice, with a visible inflex
at the beginning of 2015. This matches the information publicized
elsewhere about Fedora becoming more popular.
Zbyszek
>
> I hope this is helpful.. [I am working on ways to make this available
> regularly but am up to my neck in spam accounts so don;'t expect
> soon.]