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The i686 architecture was removed from parabola-hackers by this commit:
26794af5e libre/parabola-hackers: updated to 20200202
26794af5e6f2f7fe7e15804b21ac67f75b8efd1f
Given that this commit updates it to 20200202, I assume that this
removal was just the result of syncing with an equivalent Arch Linux
package, as Arch Linux dropped the i686 support some time ago.
It would be a good idea to re-enable other architectures as the
parabola-hackers package could be used to share access to a machine to
all Parabola hackers in a way that easily integrate with the current
Parabola infrastructure.
For instance if someone wants to give full access to an ARM computer,
the parabola-hackers could be added to enable any Parabola hacker access
instead of manually configuring the SSH access for each person that
wants or needs access.
i686 is also still relevant since it's still supported by Parabola and
there are still many uses cases where it might be a good idea to build
packages on i686:
* It could be used to make sure that some CPU features are not there as
a workaround to some AUR packages that use -mach=native, which sometimes
ends up in pcr packages.
* Several i686 only computers run Libreboot
* It's still a good idea to be able to build on more hardware to
be able to increase the build capacity and/or make it faster and
easier to respin the Parabola infrastructure on any hardware in case of
server crash.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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