[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 i686

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
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> On 06/01/2015 03:05 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>> On 06/01/2015 07:42 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> I am going to release a fully installable beta i686 tree with signed
>>> RPMS soon (this week)
>>
>> That is awesome news!
>>
>> Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the EPEL folks are planning to
>> add a 32-bit x86 EPEL 7 repo?
>>
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> We had spoken with them about it as a secondary arch for EPEL. The
> agreement was that once we had something released, it would be
> revisited/discussed again. So it's a discussion we'll probably be
> kicking off again soon.

I've been chatting with a developer who's publishing notes to get wine
ix86 built for old 32-bit applications he needs. It would make that
add-on package a lot easier for him to build with 'mock', or getting
it into EPEL, without the current dependency theater he goes through.