ppc64 builds

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:57:19PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:05:37PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:57 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > 
> > > > And so we need to queue rebuilds for all of our packages?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure on that one.  If we can manage to build what we have already 
> > > built just for ppc64 without any bumps, that would be nice. 
> > 
> > We've never bothered shipping 64-bit versions of Extras packages before
> > -- unless you suddenly find an overriding reason to do so, I don't see
> > any reason to rebuild for F7 just to add a 64-bit binary package which
> > we don't need to ship anyway.
> 
> 36% of FC6/ppc Core are shipped as 64 bit packages, which means that
> there is quite often the demand/desire to do so. It is very unlikely
> that the demand in Extras is 0.

I redid the math for F7 and the same percentage was given back. In
order to get something different I also checked FC5 and there we had
14% in Core. So the stats of Core ppc packages shipped as ppc64
versions as well are:

FC5: 14%
FC6: 36%
F7:  36%

> The fact that Extras didn't build/ship 64 bits for ppc was probably
> more a technical one, but since the worlds unite, anything that was
> possible with a former Core package will be possible with a former
> Extras package, too.
> 
> 36% also indicates that not all ppc packages make sense to build as 64
> bits, but rather about a third. This looks like the packagers need to
> decide on a package by package basis and communicate this to the
> buildsystem, either by the package database or some metafile in the
> sources. But since this mechanism has to have been available to Core,
> we just need to let packagers know how to trigger this, if they want
> it.





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