#381 378 - System-Wide Change: No more i686 repositories
Closed 4 years ago by pbokoc. Opened 4 years ago by quiet.
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  [[select-distribution]]

  = Distribution-wide Changes

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+ [[software-repositories]]

+ == Software repositories

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+ The i686 repositories are no longer available to users to directly install Fedora 31 on i686 hardware. However, the i686 packages continue to be available in the x86_64 multi-lib repositories.

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+ Users with i686 Fedora installations may want to re-install their systems with the 64-bit version if their hardware is 64-bit capable. Alternatively, they can move to new 64-bit capable hardware.

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  [[sect-installation-anaconda-other]]

  === Other Anaconda Changes

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+ [[sect-repositories]]

+ == Software repositories

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+ Fedora no longer ships i686 repositories. For more details see the xref:sysadmin/Distribution.adoc#software-repositories[Distribution-wide changes] section.

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Nope, strike lines 11-13, with no repos availabe it's not possible to upgrade from a previous release on i686.

I'd also add something like:

i686 packages will continue to be available in the x86_64 repos for multiarch (running 32bit binaries on 64 bit installs such as steam or wine or other legacy software)

Users with i686 installs may want to check if their hardware is 64bit capable and reinstall with a 64bit Fedora install, switch to another distribution that continues i686 support or move to new 64bit capable hardware.

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4 years ago

I updated the wording.

Let's not tell people to switch to another distro in our release notes :)

Don't use the {PRODVER} attribute; these are useful in other versioned docs but not release note since we always start them from scratch and each particular relnote will only ever be applicable to a specific release.

Also, "no longer ships i686 repositories" - no article

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Well, I think it shows we care about their situation and want them to be happy, but I'm fine dropping that if you think it's over the line.

FWIW, I'm okay with pointing users to some of our downstream choices or even remixes when they better cover specific use cases. Hopefully those distros will do the same for us!

Nit: "Fedora now no longer..." is clunky. I'd just go with "Fedora no longer...".
Or "As of this release, Fedora no longer..." if it's really important to tell people it's a new development.

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Pull-Request has been closed by pbokoc

4 years ago