Fedora 23 Server: Fate of i686?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed May 6 09:25:13 UTC 2015


On 05/05/15 21:47, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 03:04:17PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Some combination of "not relevant" and "non-functional", in that Docker
> images as envisioned and provided by Docker upstream have no concept of
> architecture and are always x86_64.

So what's happening with armv7hl then?

Paul.


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