> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Khem Raj > Sent: 10 December 2019 20:35 > To: Randy MacLeod <[email protected]> > Cc: openembedded-architecture <openembedded- > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto support for Centos-7 (RHEL-7): > drop in early 2020? > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:23 AM Randy MacLeod > <[email protected]> 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? > > > > CentOS-7 is just too old and there is significant work to support it. > > I am in support of it, but then I also fear that many corporate policies > might still > be using it until 2024 when security updates end so perhaps would like to hear > centos7 users here. if no one speaks up then we can safely retire it before > 3.1 >
While I see what the motivation to remove CentOS-7 is, dropping it will probably create issues for people. CentOS 8 was released not so long ago. In our case we have older products (among which Yocto based ones) which do not necessarily work on CentOS 8. CentOS 8 is relatively recent, so we have not had time to test how old products work on it. Isn't it possible to require things like devtoolset-8 (gcc 8.3, binutils-2.30) on CentOS 7 to keep it going? In our case we are using devtoolset-8 with Yocto thud on CentOS 7 with success, as some layers require a recent host gcc to build. > > 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. > > > > -- > > # Randy MacLeod > > # Wind River Linux > > _______________________________________________ > > Openembedded-architecture mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architectu > > re > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-architecture mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture -- Diego Santa Cruz, PhD Technology Architect spinetix.com _______________________________________________ Openembedded-architecture mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture
