On 12/11/19 5:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 11:18 +0100, Andreas Müller wrote: >> 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? > > uninative isn't the right place. What we'd need is a nativesdk-gcc > recipe and then to add nativesdk-gcc to buildtools-tarball. > > We could then add some mechanism to auto-install buildtools tarball up > front on systems that need it, in a similar way to what uninative does. > > Definitely possible and would solve certain problems, we'd just need > someone to implement it...
From my point of view, the people that need CentOS 7 support need to step up and do the work. The project can't allocate critical development resources to support older distros. Philip > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-architecture mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-architecture mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture
