On 03/06/2019 09:38, Marcin Juszkiewicz 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? That's a good discussion to have indeed now , before it's released :) I'd say there are pros and cons now for both. If me move aarch64/ppc64le under /centos/8 , people who were used to previous location will still try to find it under /altarch/ Also worth noting that if we move to /centos/ , more external mirrors will get content for those architectures that they probably weren't interested in (reason why altarch was a separate module, to let people opt-in) . That would also confuse those links : https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ https://www.centos.org/download/altarch-mirrors/ So, while it's clear that aarch64 and ppc64le are now "primary" arches (built in parallel of the x86_64 on https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/) the real question is : do we still consider those "altarch" or not :) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190603/a96f65a6/attachment-0008.sig>