On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:39 AM Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org> wrote: > > 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? I think that re-arranging all the architectures that are listed in /etc/yum.repos.CentOS-Base.repo means changing the layout of all the mock and yum configs as well. It's not necessarily evil, but it would be confusing to be different for RHEL 8 from all the other architectures. Nico Kadel-Garcia