[CentOS-devel] Centos 7.i686

[Johnny Hughes]

On 01/05/2015 07:01 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 05/01/15 13:51, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 12/26/2014 05:24 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> On 25/12/14 16:54, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
>>>> Dear Devs: I have been reading this mailing list since C7 came
>>>> out and of late have not seen much progress on C7.i686 aka 32
>>>> bit.  I don't see a SIG for it on the Centos Pages.  I am
>>>> wondering has the idea been dropped or where does it stand?
>>>
>>> the larger goal is to let this effort be user-led, so starting up
>>> a SIG might be a good way to go here. I know that the original
>>> bootstrap had most of the builds done - and Andreas ( assited by
>>> others ) had gotten most of the bits done. There would be a need
>>> to run the updates, and then also identify what portion of the
>>> distro is not going to make it to i686 at all. The rest from
>>> there should be easy...
>>>
>>> As I did with the powerpc effort, happy to host a i686 specific
>>> google hangout where I can walk people through the build process,
>>> and what they need to do in order to affect builds in the centos
>>> buildsystem.
>>>
>>> - KB
>>>
> 
>> I now have a working syslinux and kernel in git.centos.org under
>> c7-i686
> 
>> I am building those every time they update for i686 as well as
>> x86_64
> 
>> I have all the RPMs currently built, including the
>> java-1.6.0-openjdk built that was an issue .. I'll post the RPM
>> list and what is missing (compared to x86_64) and we can try to
>> figure out what we need to make build (We may need to change some
>> other things that they made exclusivearch x86_64, like they did
>> syslinux)
> 
>> Then we can get an i686 test spin out.
> 
>> Here is the kernel and syslinux links for i686
> 
>> https://git.centos.org/log/rpms!kernel.git/refs!heads!c7-i686
> 
>> https://git.centos.org/log/rpms!syslinux/refs!heads!c7-i686
> 
> 
> 
> I had to reinstall an old thinkpad (family laptop used by the kids)
> and wanted to build a C7/i386 livecd to install it with minimal
> desktop, but some packages (like ibus-sayura) are missing from
> buildlogs.centos.org and no build logs either for i386, meaning no
> built was even tried ..
> Can we just massively try to build all packages to i386 to at least
> have logs and see why they fail (or not) ?

I am pretty sure I did do a massive i686 rebuild .. it is possible I
missed a couple, but not very many.

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