This is a tracking bug for Change: No i686 Repositories For more details, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Noi686Repositories Stop producing and distributing the Modular and Everything i686 repositories.
We have reached the '100% Code Complete' milestone in the Fedora 31 release cycle. If your Change is complete, please set the status to ON_QA. The Beta Freeze is underway. If you need a freeze exception, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process If this Change will not be ready for Fedora 31, please set the version to rawhide.
This change has been made in rawhide and looks fine, so I submitted a PR to land it in f31: https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/pull-request/763 Hopefully that is merged soon. Then docs are all that is left.
Sorry if this is not an appropriate place for such questions, but I didn't find any prior discussion anywhere else. Isn't that entire motivation for dropping i686 repositories just a fake? I've installed x86_64 kernel just fine on otherwise i686 system and it seems to work flawlessly, even Java applications seem to work. Why not just ship i686 userland with x86_64 kernel then? What's wrong with that?
(In reply to vvs from comment #3) > Sorry if this is not an appropriate place for such questions, but I didn't > find any prior discussion anywhere else. See the long thread on the fedora devel list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/T5ZV5WCJ7U7BFQXC6RTNG3AIHXOORYOC/ > Isn't that entire motivation for dropping i686 repositories just a fake? > I've installed x86_64 kernel just fine on otherwise i686 system and it seems > to work flawlessly, even Java applications seem to work. Why not just ship > i686 userland with x86_64 kernel then? What's wrong with that? Why not use a x86_64 userland? x86_64 kernel with 32bit userland has never been a tested or supported Fedora install. Anyhow, feel free to discuss more on the devel list... this bug is to track the status of the already approved change.
Complete except for docs, as reported in today's FESCo meeting
Closing Change tracking bugs for the Fedora 31 release.