On Thursday 01 of October 2015 23:24:49 David C. Rankin wrote:
I was floored at the short-sightedness of the Leap team not building for i586. As mentioned on the opensuse list, I would expected the i586 kiss-off to come from the bleeding-edge distros long before opensuse abandoned 32-bit architecture. I guess the 32-bit users can migrate to the bleeding-edge for the next update as Arch is still packaging i686 on the 4.2 kernel (which stays current with kernel.org)
Note: Leap is going to have 4.1, i.e. one version older kernel.
It's ironic that this whole basis for this multi-year fangled ringed-build system was sold as something that would make the build process easier for the build team, so that more could be packaged, tested with fewer bugs and less manpower. This seems to have paid off in-spades as we are now cutting entire architectures because we don't have enough manpower to build it anymore. Ironic...
Architecture*s*? As in "more than one"? But seriously... It was more and more apparent that current model is unsustainable in the long term with the resources openSUSE has. Perhaps not apparent to the end users but obvious to anyone involved or at least interested in the process. Changing the model is one step to address the problem, dropping official i586 support is another.
Well hopefully through your effort, cooler heads will previal and the new build system will show its worth with the 'i586' directory is sitting side-by-side with the x86_64 dir, just as it always has, and just as it should for the next 5 years..
Not exactly "side-by-side", I hope. If the i586 build was considered equally official and equally supported, we would be inevitably repeating exactly the same discussion on and on 5, 10, ... years from now. (ifconfig anyone?) I don't mind if some group of volunteers prepares i586 images so that they are available as "ports", similar to arm64 or ppc64. But I'm surely glad that finally one of the major distributions has the courage to take first step in discontinuing the architecture (and for openSUSE breaking the pattern "others do it, so we have to"). Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org