#57 consider dropping ppc64 after fedora 28 eol
Closed: Fixed 4 years ago by smooge. Opened 4 years ago by kevin.

Once fedora-28 goes end of life, fedora will no longer build for ppc64 (only ppc64le).

Since our builders are fedora, we will no longer have any ppc64 builders.

We can make some rhel7 ones and put them in their own channel. However, thats pain and burden and resources that are very seldom used.

So, what would be the possibility of dropping that arch for epel6 and epel7? Do we have many users? In epel7, can they not move to ppc64le?


With Fedora soon to no longer support the PPC64 platform over PPC64le, the ability for EPEL to continue support of this platform is dwindling. As such, it would be good to look at ending support for this platform in our build system when RHEL-7.7 happens.

What could be done is the following:
0. Wait for RHEL-7.7beta
1. Email various lists about the plan.
2. Update the epel-release with a warning on PPC64 that the END of LIFE will be happening and this platform will be moved to archives.
3. patch mirorrmanager for anything needed to do the below
4. At RHEL-7.7 release,
4a. archive off ppc64 data to /pub/archives/epel
4b. take out builders for ppc64
4c. make an epel-release which points ppc64 to /pub/archive links
4d. update mirrormanager for ppc64 links to go to /pub/archive
4e. retire content as needed

Please add to this ticket what we really should do as this is a very rough plan and needs thought and planning.

+1 for dropping ppc64

Metadata Update from @smooge:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

4 years ago

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