[Pulp-dev] dropping i386 support in Pulp

[Dennis Kliban]

----- Original Message -----
> Would this have any effect on katello-agent for i386 arch clients?

The spec file[0] for katello-agent says that it depends on the following:

Requires: gofer >= 2.5
Requires: python-gofer-proton >= 2.5
Requires: python-pulp-agent-lib >= 2.6
Requires: pulp-rpm-handlers >= 2.6

It looks like all of the above packages are noarch[1]. So theoretically you should still be able to use them on i386. Is my understanding correct here?

[0] https://github.com/Katello/katello-agent/blob/KATELLO-2.3/katello-agent.spec#L14-L17
[1] https://repos.fedorapeople.org/pulp/pulp/stable/2/fedora-24/i386/

 - Dennis


> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for following up. +1 to dropping i386 support because**.
> > However, I think we should adjust the statement to be that Pulp only
> > supports X86_64 at this time until we can develop a plan to bring in more
> > architectures. One outcome of that is that i386 would be dropped. If there
> > is no one opposed, making 2 tickets on it would be a good next step. One
> > ticket to issue the statement via blog post and pulp-list, and another to
> > update the build machinery to stop publishing i386.
> >
> > **: (a) we provide an incomplete set of i386 packages today so it doesn't
> > actually work well, (b) we never QE on i386, and (c) I don't think anyone
> > is using them, but I have no evidence for that
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Dennis Kliban <dkliban at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It's been almost a week and I have not heard from anyone on this topic.
> >> Does that mean we all agree that Pulp should drop support for i386?
> >>
> >> -Dennis
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> > As I was adding Fedora 25 to Koji, I noticed that our Fedora 24
> >> packages were
> >> > not being built for i386. Even though most of the packages in the Pulp
> >> repo
> >> > are 'noarch', the pymongo related packages need to be compiled
> >> specifically
> >> > for i386. With having said that, I don't think we should support i386
> >> > architecture. We should make a formal announcement about this. What are
> >> your
> >> > thoughts?
> >> >
> >> > -Dennis
> >> >
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