On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, Jiri Slaby wrote:
Hi,
On 14. 12. 22, 12:52, Lubos Kocman wrote:
i586 carve-out from Factory * openSUSE:Factory:LegacyX86 is setup and builds are in a similar state as openSUSE:Factory * Bots are already up and running: ttm, pkglistgen, trigger-rebuild for rebuild=local * openQA is setup https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/75 => the releases have been rolling on for the last three days, QA looks reasonable and things progress nicely. As planned, users should be able to migrate in January. We'll add some code to openSUSE-release in Tumbleweed to migrate repositories away when detected (with information logged of course)
The maintenance of this port is uncertain though. Jiri Slaby volunteered, but that was back when the idea of having x86_64 there (and TW as v2) was current. As that decision was revised, I don't think Jiri is interested in maintaining i586;
You are right ;). As I explicitly wrote in the e-mail I never intended to maintain ix86. I also asked there for maintainers and noone raised their hands. Does this mean noone is interested and we can drop the port at last? (Hint: it's the right time to wave your hands NOW.) That would render all the work Dominique and others invested into :LegacyX86 futile :/.
but no commitment, so things might fall over for weeks if not longer
Maybe it will prove noone cares when the project fails to build completely. Good riddance then.
At least since we are going to need a ix86 tree to build some 32bit support libraries for x86-64 we are likely at least keeping a ix86 Ring-0 building. So resurrecting ix86 should be possible later. The most "interesting" part will be old BIOS and 32bit kernel support of course. Richard. -- Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstrasse 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany; GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Boudien Moerman; HRB 36809 (AG Nuernberg)