On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:15 AM Diego Santa Cruz via Openembedded-architecture <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----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. > How about extending uninative with more gcc bits?
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