On 06/16/2016 03:16 PM, Christopher wrote:

> I'm trying to revive rpms/hadoop, but am running into some failures[1] on i686
> in koji that I cannot reproduce locally in x86_64. The thing is... I don't
> really have any good 32-bit environment to test this locally. Hadoop isn't
> really suitable for 32-bit architectures (IMO) and I doubt it's a well-tested
> upstream arch.
> 
> Any suggestions for how I should proceed? Is it really necessary that *all*
> packages support i686 arch, even when it doesn't make sense for the
> application's users?
> 
> [1]: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=14521689
> 

Probably best to engage upstream to figure out what's wrong (or if they want to
assert that i686 is unsupported). If i686 is truly not ever going to work,
that's what ExcludeArch is for.