On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 16:32 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 11/23/22 16:22, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
To become Old Factory * for users of legacy systems, we will introduce openSUSE:Factory:Intel, the same setup we have for ports like ARM, PowerPC, zSystems, RISCV. This repo will build packages for x86-64 (v1) plus i586, so basically what the current openSUSE:Factory repository does.
Community Actions Needed The :Intel port will require volunteers from the community to look after it. This will entail monitoring the builds, validating QA results (if not passing) and monitoring/pushing on bugs that are exclusive to these architectures (...) **Once the new intel port repository is ready, I'll let you know the exact location of it. We can expect for these changes to take place in the first quarter of the new year of 2023.**
This sounds like a very reasonable approach to me. I assume that means there will be ISO images for the "Intel" port as well, won't there?
YEs, I'd defintiively make ISO files for the installers. But it mostly dpeends on the volunteers that step up to actually maintain the things. I'll help with the initial setup (incl openQA) but, once running, expect not to touch this anymore (unless the people opting to take care ask for specific help). So in short: yes, I expect installer ISO files, but I'd not expect Live images.
I think it's a pity that openSUSE doesn't build images for all the architectures built in Factory. Some ports like big-endian PowerPC (32- and 64-bit) are missing.
Honestly, I'm not even sure which of the ports even have users - we build ISO files for PPC64 and PPC64le (but not ppc32) https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/ Cheers, Dominique