RFR: 8362243: Devkit creation for Fedora base OS is broken

[Volkan Yazici]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:57:13 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In Devkit, removes `ppc64`/`ppc64be`, which is superseded by `ppc64le`, fixes Fedora repository links, and bumps the `LATEST_ARCHIVED_OS_VERSION` to 36.
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> doc/building.md line 1404:
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>> 1402: | armel        | buster       | arm           | arm-linux-gnueabi        | zero                      |
>> 1403: | ppc          | sid          | powerpc       | powerpc-linux-gnu        | zero                      |
>> 1404: | ppc64be      | sid          | ppc64         | powerpc64-linux-gnu      | (all)                     |
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> This one is not about Fedora, but about Debian-based sysroot. I have not checked recently, but I suspect it would still work, as Debian PPC64 BE port is still alive: https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64

@shipilev, thanks so much for the review. 🙇 I was thinking in the same with @magicus while removing this row. Do you still prefer to keep it?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26821#discussion_r2284076853