Fedora 23 Server: Fate of i686?

[Stephen Gallagher]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Gilmore" <dennis at ausil.us>
> To: server at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 3:00:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 23 Server: Fate of i686?
> 
> On Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:08:10 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > One thing that came up near the end of today's Server SIG meeting was the
> > question of whether to support Server Roles as Docker containers in Fedora
> > 23. The primary reason for holding off on this in the past was that only
> > x86_64 systems could run Docker. This left i686 and armv7hl (our other two
> > primary architectures) out in the cold if we went this path.
> 
> There is no technical reason that i686 does not have docker builds.
> 


If that is the case, why are there no i686 builds? According to the Package Guidelines[1] "ExcludeArch should only be set when the architecture is not relevant for the package, the package is non-functional on the architecture, or the code does not compile cleanly for the architecture." Given that a lot of long-term packagers are working on Docker, I'd be surprised to learn that not building it on i686 is accidental.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures#ExcludeArch_.26_ExclusiveArch