PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Wed Sep 30 22:55:56 UTC 2009


On 09/28/2009 12:21 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As of today, ppc and ppc64 are no longer primary architectures in koji starting
> with the dist-f13 tag.  This is in accordance with the FESCo approved demotion
> of PowerPC starting with Fedora 13 development.
>
> The dist-f12 and older tags continue to have them as primary.


Both ppc and ppc64 have been excellent at catching software bugs in my 
projects that long went unnoticed on i386/x86-64.

The lack of big endian builds by default is a notable loss, and will 
lead to a decline in software quality.

I think this is a net-negative for Fedora.

	Jeff





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