dropping 32/31-bit support (aka s390)

[Dan Horák]

Hello everyone,

after long discussions we came to the conclusion that we will drop
32/31-bit support from the upcoming Fedora releases. There are 2 main
reasons - technical and resources. From the technical side more and more
projects either focus on 64-bit s390x or even support only s390x and
with the broad dependency chains it affects large parts of the current
package set in Fedora. From the resource side doing 2 sub-architectures
simply requires twice the number of resources (computing time, disk
space) than doing just one. For human resources the ratio is even
worse, because we need to fix or workaround the limitations of the
32-bit case.

So from now we have dropped s390 sub-arch from Rawhide (aka Fedora 25).
Removing the support from Fedora 24 is also being considered,
especially in the sight of possible 32-bit related issues during the
year of planned life for the release.


	With regards,

		Dan

[Dan Horák]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:02:44 +0200
Dan Horák <dan(a)danny.cz&gt; wrote:

>  Hello everyone,
>  
>  after long discussions we came to the conclusion that we will drop
>  32/31-bit support from the upcoming Fedora releases. There are 2 main
>  reasons - technical and resources. From the technical side more and
>  more projects either focus on 64-bit s390x or even support only s390x
>  and with the broad dependency chains it affects large parts of the
>  current package set in Fedora. From the resource side doing 2
>  sub-architectures simply requires twice the number of resources
>  (computing time, disk space) than doing just one. For human resources
>  the ratio is even worse, because we need to fix or workaround the
>  limitations of the 32-bit case.
>  
>  So from now we have dropped s390 sub-arch from Rawhide (aka Fedora
>  25). Removing the support from Fedora 24 is also being considered,
>  especially in the sight of possible 32-bit related issues during the
>  year of planned life for the release. 
we have disabled the 31/32 bit builds for F-24 earlier today. Fedora 24
is in the final freeze before the GA meaning just few packages should
get newer builds than there are today. The build system will carry the
s390 rpms forever if anyone would need them. The F-24 release will be
thus 64-bit only.

Bye bye, s390 and long live s390x :-)


		Dan

[Neale Ferguson]

Yay!

On 6/9/16, 8:47 AM, "Dan Horák" <dan(a)danny.cz&gt; wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:02:44 כֿ
> Dan Horák <dan(a)danny.cz&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > after long discussions we came to the conclusion that we will drop
> > 32/31-bit support from the upcoming Fedora releases. There are 2 main
> > reasons - technical and resources. From the technical side more and
> > more projects either focus on 64-bit s390x or even support only s390x
> > and with the broad dependency chains it affects large parts of the
> > current package set in Fedora. From the resource side doing 2
> > sub-architectures simply requires twice the number of resources
> > (computing time, disk space) than doing just one. For human resources
> > the ratio is even worse, because we need to fix or workaround the
> > limitations of the 32-bit case.
> > 
> > So from now we have dropped s390 sub-arch from Rawhide (aka Fedora
> > 25). Removing the support from Fedora 24 is also being considered,
> > especially in the sight of possible 32-bit related issues during the
> > year of planned life for the release.
>
> we have disabled the 31/32 bit builds for F-24 earlier today. Fedora 24
> is in the final freeze before the GA meaning just few packages should
> get newer builds than there are today. The build system will carry the
> s390 rpms forever if anyone would need them. The F-24 release will be
> thus 64-bit only.
>
> Bye bye, s390 and long live s390x :-)
>
>
> 		Dan
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