January 2017 - Arch-ports - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-ports] [i686] Next steps
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi everyone, sorry for writing so late but there is limit of things I can accomplish every day and that list always includes some cat pictures. As you are most likely aware, I recently announced the deprecation of i686 support. However I would like this to turn out into a second tier architecture. I can imagine that there is no need for huge team of packagers; as i686 isn't very different from x86_64, it will be mostly "catch up" game against base distribution (Arch). ARM team already did this work[1] so it's mostly about setting it up with few build servers. ARM port also maintains a separate git repository with modified PKGBUILDs that wouldn't otherwise build on ARM. I'd probably consider targeting i486 or i586 instead to include more old hardware. i686 misses the fanciest features anyway. So these are my 5 cents. I keep an eye on the mailing list and will try to reply in timely manner to any questions. Bartłomiej [1] http://github.com/archlinuxarm

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[arch-ports] i686 Arch port
by Nick Koskinas 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hello everyone, just joined the list. I don't currently use Arch on a i636 system but I definitely understand the need for support. I don't have a lot of experience with maintaining packages and definitely can't keep the whole thing on my own. We could start by creating an organisation on GitHub or any other git platform so we can maintain the PKGBUILDs as ArchLinuxARM is doing [1]. We also would need computational power to compile the packages, a server to act as a repo and a server for the web-site. What I surely can offer is several VPSs in Greece to act as the main web-site and as the repository server. [1] - https://github.com/archlinuxarm Polichronucci -- nick(a)discloud.eu GPG: 0x7E8A06A6C80574E4

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[arch-ports] i686 Arch port
by Petras Petunov 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Hello guys, Is anyone else interested in keeping i686 Arch alive? Personally I have one Arch box running i686 with a 17 year old Intel cpu. Of course I could switch to Debian, but I would prefer not to. I don't have any experience developing or maintaining packages, but maybe I could help somehow? Best Regards, Petras

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