On August 31, 2015 7:29:23 PM EDT, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On 2015-08-31 17:46, Brian F. Yulga wrote:
I completely understand that it is not practical to continue official 32-bit support due to the general direction of the openSUSE project with Leap. Is there a way to make unofficial 32-bit support (e.g. a spin) less time or effort... for example, require a successful build against the "minimal x-window" install pattern, instead of all packages? (I have no idea because I haven't used OBS - I need to learn!)
I fear it will be impossible. We can not build it on susestudio because there will be nothing to base it on, no repos to draw from. And I don't know if it is possible to do an install disk on the OBS, if the 32 bit target is removed. We would have to do it all. Absolutely all.
Carlos, OB$ builds various "ports" of opensuse: multiple ARM and PPC architectures. One of those is built via qemu on the Intel servers. If 32-bit is demoted to ports status, I fully expect it to stay on OBS, just with a lower build priority than it has now. That is unlikely to be the problem. Further, OBS has integrated kiwi support, so building ISOs should still be possible. The bigger issue is who are the enthusiasts that will maintain grub, grub2, lilo, initrd, and of course the kernel. There are arm enthusiasts that make sure it works on various arm platforms. Maybe they can inform us how much work it is? As I've said, i don't need an up to date 32-bit version of openSUSE, so I won't be one of those enthusiasts. Greg -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org