PPC/PPC64 builders not working?

Brian Pepple bpepple at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 17 15:37:58 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:19 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > To be fair, it likely requires a ppc host to be able to investigate the
> > problem to this level, and that's just not something everybody has
> > sitting on their desk.
> 
> Right, and that's why PPC (and PPC64 even more so) should be a secondary arch. 
> When the most mainstream "computer" with a PPC CPU is the PS3, you know you 
> have a problem. ;-) PPC as a primary arch made sense when Macs used it, not 
> anymore.
> 
> (Hmmm, who decides what arches are primary? The Board? FESCo? Somebody else?)

FESCo made the decision a while back that once another arch was up and
running as a secondary arch, PPC would be moved from a primary to a
secondary arch.

Later,
/B
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