Justin Forbes schreef op vr 16-04-2021 om 13:33 [-0500]:
The only thing that RHEL builds i686 at all is kernel-headers and
kernel-cross headers. For Fedora, kernel-headers is a separate package.
Glad I asked, because I hadn't realized this. And apologies for yet another
email. In over a year I only delivered some messages...
Those likely need to remain for 32bit userspace packages.
(More a note to self: dnf doesn't lists either kernel-headers.i686 or kernel-
cross-headers.i686. Perhaps that is because they appear to ship identical
files. But why bother building them for i686? And why is kernel-cross-headers
not a noarch file? Ie, what explains the differences between k-c-h.aarch64, k-
c-h.arm7hl, etc. Lot to learn here...)
I haven't seen your patches, but it seems the first step would be
to remove
anything that builds/verifies the i686 configs, this can include the
i686 config directories (but don't move x86_64 up to x86). I might
also remove filter-i686* and stop it from being called as well.
That was sort of my approach: first clean up the specfile, then remove
anything that has then become unreachable.
Once nothing is using those configs, we can look at rearranging
x86/x86_64
to just be a single x86 directory in a separate change.
This is what my "configs: there's only x86_64" commit does. That turned out
to
be much simpler than I feared.
Doing it this way should make it a bit easier to get that patch
through quickly
without too much churn. It can also be better arranged around the
merge window, which is when config options change the most.
My English is letting me down here, but config churn is lowest at the end of
the dev. cycle, so config cleanup is best done around rc7 or rc8, right?
Thanks,
Paul Bolle