[CentOS-devel] How altarch will be in CentOS 8?

Marcin Juszkiewicz

marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org
Mon Jun 3 07:38:50 UTC 2019


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?



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