EPEL Project collaboration and supplementary arch support

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:40:42 +0100
Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 18 March 2014 11:54, Jim Perrin <jperrin at 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.

EPEL doesnt support multilib at all. so its really not going to help
you here.

Dennis
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