On 01/09/2014 05:37 PM, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
Is anyone else interested in a i[36]86 build of CentOS7 and would be willing and able to contribute to it? Or is x86_64 the only release really needed?
If there's some interest, I am sure this could be turned into a nice project.
Thanks Andreas,
there is one rather large giant in the room : almost a third of the CentOS userbase hits the i686 tree. Ofcourse, just like any other statistic that could mean quite a lot, or nothing at all.
Having said that, there is a large multilib component in the x86_64 distro - while I havent looked as yet for specific numbers and packages, it seems we might need to build large chunks of i686 to satisfy those builds anyway ( stress on not-been-quantified-yet ).
ofcourse making things interesting are things like redhat-rpm-config with a hardwired -mx86_64 :)
Over the coming days, i will try and make this effort easier for everyone and also setup something that allows us all to pool resources in. Stay tuned :)
btw. while everyone stays 'tuned' - it might be worth pondering how much i686 patch coverage we might expect from upstream. We might be able to build this once, will we be able to keep it going trivially, painfully, not-at-all.
Its the same question and scope ( but lesser depth ) for the powerpc platform.
- KB