From the package review guidelines: --- MUST: If the package does not successfully compile, build or work on an architecture, then those architectures should be listed in the spec in ExcludeArch. Each architecture listed in ExcludeArch needs to have a bug filed in bugzilla, describing the reason that the package does not compile/build/work on that architecture. The bug number should then be placed in a comment, next to the corresponding ExcludeArch line. New packages will not have bugzilla entries during the review process, so they should put this description in the comment until the package is approved, then file the bugzilla entry, and replace the long explanation with the bug number. --- This Bug is used as a tracker for such issues. If you added a bug for a package that uses ExcludeArch mark is as blocking this bug. If it's unlikely that the issue is ever fixed feel free to close the bug directy after reporting. Otherwise leave it open.
Adding Tracking keyword
Reporter changed to nobody by request of Thorsten Leemhuis.
The upstream team is actively working on this. I think the relevant kernel patches are already upstream.
Er, slight correction. Upstream is working on i386 checkpoint/restore on x86_64 kernels, so the package will be buildable soon. It won't *work* on a real i686 system, but that's a different story.
It is no longer required to file tracking issues for packages that "ExcludeArch: i686" since Fedora 37: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EncourageI686LeafRemoval I'm closing this bug since this change now covers all active branches of Fedora.