No kernel on i686

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Just wanted to bring this to wider attention:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592374
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593411
 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

There is no kernel being built on i686.  This breaks several
assumptions:

(1) Any package which depends on a kernel module by requiring
‘kmod(foo.ko)’ will no longer be installable on i686.  If it
BuildRequires the package it will FTBFS.

Packages affected:
 - batctl
 - floppy-support
 - gfs2-utils
 - joystick-support
 - snapd
 - usbip
 - xl2tpd

(2) Any package which depends on ‘kernel-devel’ or
‘kernel-devel-uname-r’ will no longer be installable.  If it
BuildRequires the package it will FTBFS.

Packages affected (some of these may be from rpmfusion):
 - akmods
 - bcc-tools
 - dkms
 - systemtap-devel  [this causes lots of packages to FTBFS]

My real question: Is this going to be a long-term state of affairs?
Should I start dropping dependencies / stop building stuff which needs
a kernel on i686?  Or should we wait it out?

(I have no need for i686 nor any particular desire to actually
investigate or fix the problems on this obsolete hardware.)

Rich.

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