Re: Work getting hwcaps microchiecture package geneataion into rpm

Reon Beon via devel devel@lists.fedoraproject.org writes:

https://hackweek.suse.com/all/projects/support-glibc-hwcaps-and-micro-archit... Comments

dancermak
5 days ago by dancermak | Reply

This sounds very intriguing! I have a few notes about this:
    you might be interested in this (sadly stalled) upstream PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1035 which adds better detection of the currently running microarchitecture
    once rpm gains the ability to automatically generate subpackages (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/1485), this could be completely automated
    I would suggest to use actual boolean dependencies instead of packageand: Supplements: (libfoo1 and x86-64-v3)

And please, please make some noise about this and coordinate it with the other rpm based distros, so that we don't end up with yet another SUSE-ism but instead lead the innovation.

Heh, the places where you see your name pop up ;-)

Now, back to business: I think this project has great potential and could allow rpm based distributions to ship optimized packages without having to leave old hardware behind (like the fortunately abandoned baseline increase proposal from a few years ago).

So anyone interested in this: hackweek is open to anyone and I think that Antonio won't mind getting help ;-)

Cheers,

Dan