On 12/10/19 9:22 AM, Randy MacLeod wrote: > > In the YP technical meeting today, Richard suggested that we stop > support for CentOS-7. Is there any objection to doing so > before 3.1-M2?
Sounds good to me. - Armin > > CentOS-7 is just too old and there is significant work to support it. > Richard said that many if not most of the package upgrades that he > deals with fail for CentOS-7 and he has to either fix them himself > or get the person who submitted the work to do so. Newer distributions > are not nearly so problematic. > > While the CentOS-7 distro is still a supported by it's provider, > the toolchain is very old: > - gcc-4.8 > - glibc-2.17 > - binutils-2.27 > > One could add a newer toolchain to the buildtools tarball to address > some of the CentOS-7 support problems. So far, we have only use > the host's toolchain and it seems best to continue to do so. > > Release and support dates for CentOS-6,7,8 are here: > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product > Note that 'Full Updates' or new hardware support for > CentOS-7 stops in Q3 2020. > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-architecture mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture
