What you describe -- replacing a distro's utilities by those from other
than the distro -- is done in practice for *SOME* things, as most on
this list do. However, under no condition should this be called a
stable distro, let alone an "enterprise hardened stable" distro, without
the amount of testing that most of us on this list realistically cannot
provide.
I can provide examples.
Clearly, such "one-offs" are NOT production distros as you point out.
The real problem comes about when system core packages, such as "glib",
Python, etc, in which the stock distro has a particular release level
woven throughout much of the system core -- again, a "one-off" distro,
but with all sorts of instabilities or even total failure.
Depending upon the access level any of the above has to other parts of a
system, there could be large security vulnerabilities introduced.
On 5/5/21 3:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 11:00:00PM +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 4 May 2021, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
- first slide of "distribution landscape" is nonsense,
with everybody stuck with el7 for another 3 years and
bye, bye, c++14, c++17, c++20.
Is Red Hat Developer Toolset 10
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_documentation_en-2Dus_red-5Fhat-5Fdeveloper-5Ftoolset_10_html_10.0-5Frelease-5Fnotes_dts10.0-5Frelease-23Changes-5Fin-5FDTS&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=Chv7ZrLnQII3dvv1o48KTg7YAxT9SNUUCkOkflNOCd4&s=bZUlWtCI03IJ95QWY-_DTkmqMdwOzXq8PVBkiR1dZLM&e=
not an option ?
(OK, C++20 support in g++ 10.2.1 is "experimental).
And so what?
I can take SL-6 and graft modern versions of all important packages,
one does not even need the devtoolset, GCC is easy to build from sources.
But this is no longer "SL-6", it is "SL-6-KO1", at best.
Same thing, "CentOS-7 with devtoolset, php from webtatic, python from pip, kernel
from ELREPO, etc" is not CentOS-7.
It is an irreproducible Franken-monster-bashed-together-locally thing.
Is this the new standard, the best way to go, "the new thing" for production
environments?
