Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 PM Robbie Harwood
<rharwood(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
> > For example, as far as I know, you need the 32-bit host libraries for
> > running 32-bit Windows applications in Wine. Dropping that would make
> > our Wine packages almost useless, since a large fraction of Windows
> > software still isn't 64-bit.
>
> Would it be possible to have package foo's x86_64 build produce a
> foo.i686.rpm, or even just a foo-32.x86_64.rpm for this? Wine is an
> important use case, but keeping the whole arch machinery around for it
> seems like overkill - just having the packages that are relevant for it
> build 32-bit variants as a special case seems a lot cleaner.
>
Koji normally filters out foreign arches from buildroot repos. There
are ways around it, but none are usable in Fedora Koji.
Good to know. Guess it'd have to be things like foo-32.x86_64.rpm then.
Be well,
--Robbie