Hello,
On 18 March 2014 11:54, Jim Perrin <jperrin(a)centos.org> wrote:
Specifically we intend to continue producing for the i686
architecture, as well as adding ARMv7 builds. These additional builds
will allow users with legacy hardware (or 32bit cloud images) to migrate
to newer versions while addressing the growing demand for ARM support.
EPEL provides a valuable resource to CentOS (and other builds), and
since a number of projects based on CentOS rely heavily on EPEL, we
would like to request that support for these additional architectures be
added to EPEL via a 'secondary arch'.
as a contributor I would really like to have i686 as one of the main
architectures. With the current situation, there's no chance to rebuild
many of the packages that could benefit of RHEL 7 multilib support. RHEL 7
supports 32 bit programs, but we're not really able to use them in EPEL.
Quick example: I maintain Steam for Fedora, and would like to add it also
to the RPMFusion's EPEL repository; but the package is 32 bit only and
there is currently no way to package 32 bit dependencies (like SDL2) into
EPEL 7.
Previous discussion:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-devel/2014-March/009298.html
Thanks & regards,
--Simone
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