On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:39 AM Marcin Juszkiewicz marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org wrote:
CentOS 7 supports several architectures:
- x86-64
- aarch64
- ppc64le
- armhfp
- i386
- ppc64
- power9
All except 'x86-64' are stored in /altarch/7/ directory on mirror.centos.org and are mirrored only by subset of mirrors.
RHEL 8 treats aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86-64 as equals - package has to build on each of them to get included in repositories etc.
So the question is how CentOS 8 will be organized? Moving everything into mirrors.centos.org/centos/8/ will simplify live for all of those using non-x86 machines as repos will be widely mirrored and there will be no need of handling centos|altarch in external projects.
I think that /altarch/8/ may exist for armhfp, i386, etc architectures which are not a part of RHEL 8.
What do you think?
I think that re-arranging all the architectures that are listed in /etc/yum.repos.CentOS-Base.repo means changing the layout of all the mock and yum configs as well. It's not necessarily evil, but it would be confusing to be different for RHEL 8 from all the other architectures.
Nico Kadel-Garcia