ppc64 builds

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 10:32 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Sunday 18 March 2007, 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.
>
> David do you still want ppc64 support?  if so it needs built.  we dont have 
> any way to say build this package ppc64 and this one not.  Its all or 
> nothing.

I wasn't talking about the configuration of the build system -- I was
responding to the question of whether we need to queue rebuilds for all
packages just to make ppc64 versions of them.

> there is no more extras there is only Fedora.  Im just as happy to say you get 
> no more ppc64 kernel glibc etc  which will be the outcome if we dont do this

The kernel and glibc are already built for ppc64. There is no need to
queue a rebuild just to get ppc64 versions of those.

Everything we want to ship for ppc64 is already built, surely? Except
perhaps blt :)

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