On Thu, 11 Aug 2022, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2022-08-11 09:15, Dan Čermák wrote:
But I think it could be addressed by adding support for different x86_64 baselines in rpm, zypper & dnf, podman, docker, etc., so that we can get away with rebuilding just a small subset of packages, where a newer baseline actually *matters*. That will not result in a terrible strain on our workers, while also allowing users of old hardware to still use openSUSE.
How hard could it be? glibc has been built as glibc and glibc.i686 for a long time (and now it's _multibuilded, but still doing the same).
But glibc.i686 is just used as -32bit for x86_64 systems. I don't think you get glibc.i686 automagically installed on i586 systems or that there's anything preventing you from installing it when your system isn't capable of running it (which would then be quite fatal I guess ;)) Richard.