Tumbleweed and Leap are two different distributions with discreet code bases.
Tumbleweed is not the testing branch for Leap.
The long explanation for that is my video from FOSDEM on the topic:
https://youtu.be/GoKYpj6LuJg
Tumbleweed has an i586 version because we have contributors
maintaining it. Leap does not because we do not have contributors
maintaining it.
The sad truth though is that even with the support of our contributors
for i586 Tumbleweed, the architecture itself is DEAD and
unmaintainable in the long term.
The amount of packages that just can not build for i586 is increasing.
Things like Firefox are becoming unfeasible to build for i586. The
capability for our maintainers to fix them are decreasing.
It is just a matter of time before i586 Tumbleweed is either dropped,
or at least retired as an official part of the release (i.e. It will
no longer be tested, or at least the test results will be ignored when
deciding wheather to release).
When that time comes it could be very sudden, we're basically one
developers decision away from potential major breakage that could
force our hand. And we've been in that state for well over a year,
sooner or later i586 Tumbleweeds luck is going to run out.
On 7 May 2017 at 04:05, Carlos E. R.
On 2017-05-07 02:06, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Richmond <> [05-06-17 20:03]:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Richmond <> [05-06-17 19:41]:
Why is there an i586 of TW, when there is no Leap i586? What's the point of testing it if no one can use it? TW is not "testing", that is factory. And TW is not Leap XX.X.
TW = Factory
why do you think no one can use it?
I thought that TW was the testing place for packages which became part of the release version eventually.
It is, but not directly.
But both TW and Leap are releases. One rolling, the other fixed.
I guess I am confused.
Your confusion is normal and typical.
I guess. I have been using Tw for quite a few years as a productive environment, on 4 boxes. I have leap 42.2 as a server.
factory is the development environment, precursor to Tw. But basically they are the same. many packages appear on factory before release and then to Tw.
Factory is just an internal stage, it is not published. If RB is reading, he will soon tell you that factory does not exist.
The reason that there is no 32 bit Leap is because Leap takes its kernel from SLE, and there is no 32 bit SLE.
SLE derives directly from Factory after much testing and fixing. Leap takes the core from SLE, and adds about 60% from TW.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))
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