On 01/09/2014 05:38 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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 > The weird bit may be which packages are missing on 32bit. I know the kernel source does not build a kernel for i686. Quick review of spec files (not filtered for "obviously don't run this on 32bit") shows the ExclusiveArch x86_64 and not any 32bit for: glusterfs.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 aarch64 gnome-boxes.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 gnu-efi.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 hyperv-daemons.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 infinipath-psm.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 libguestfs.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 libipathverbs.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 pesign.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 qemu-kvm.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 ras-utils.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 sanlock.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 seabios.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 sgabios.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 shim-signed.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 shim.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 spice.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 supermin.spec:ExclusiveArch: x86_64 -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/