[Spacewalk-list] Dropping i386 for Spacewalk Server?

Scott Rakow srr.list at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 18:09:34 UTC 2011


Some clients we have are running i386, but the Spacewalk server its self is
64-bit, so the client end you may want to keep as 32-bit

2011/3/24 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>

> Dear users of Spacewalk,
> I was thinking about dropping i386 architecture for Spacewalk server.
> Client tools will be still build and released for i386. But servers
> itself not.
> All current HW is 64bit but Atoms. And Atom is not the best choice for
> Spacewalk. So I do not see reason for i386.
>
> But before I head shot i386 architecture, I'm asking: Does somebody use
> i386 architecture? If yes can you migrate to x86_64? Will you miss i386
> architecture?
>
> I anticipate that a lots of people will not miss i386 architecture, so
> please reply only if you will miss it. Even better if you will write
> your story, why you can not use x86_64.
> --
> Miroslav Suchy
> Red Hat Satellite Engineering
>
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