On 16. 03. 22 15:15, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 16. 03. 22 14:54, David Cantrell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our most recent FESCo meeting involved discussing the proposal to drop i686
> builds of jdk8,11,17 from Fedora 37 onward. The topic quickly changed to the
> larger question of "what do people use i686 packages for?"
>
> Rather than guess, we wanted to ask the community what you use i686 packages
> for in Fedora. There are no wrong answers here. We are seeking information.
>
> 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.
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>
> If you use i686 packages for something now, please respond to this thread.
- I use i686 packages to build my i686 packages.
- I (randomly) use i686 packages to build my noarch packages.
- I use nosync.i686 to build my i686 packages in mock.
- The printer driver for my Brother printer is provided as i386 RPM, but I
don't know if I need that, as it doesn't work currently anyway :(
I made it work. I installed cups-libs.i686 so either that on or something in
the dep chain is needed.
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