Hi, On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 08:31:55AM +0000, Peter Marko via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > Hello maintainers, > > I'd be interested to know if meta-security repository for kirkstone is still > maintained. > Looking at commit history, there are only two commits since July 2022 (almost > a year).
FWIW, meta-security master branch worked for me on kirkstone by adding "kirkstone" to LAYERSERIES_COMPAT in my own layer.conf (it is only possible to override other layers configuration in another layer config). This was the case for many other open source layers. The LTS branches are, as you noted as well, not really maintained. They are just old snapshots which work against the poky LTS branch. With some extra work like LAYERSERIES_COMPAT and a few patches here and there, I switched to using master branch with poky, meta-openembedded and meta-arm kirkstone branch, and eventually switched completely to poky master branch (currently mickledore). Yocto LTS branches are relatively new, and best practices around them have not yet formed, and there are very few maintainers for the less-used non-core meta layers. Thus I understand the release specific branches, but I would actually advice against using them, if they have not been touched in the past few months. That just shows that branch is really not maintained. As said, with some extra work, master branch of a meta layer can support multiple poky branches, master and LTS(es). I'm hope maintainers will at least accept patches which help supporting multiple releases from a single branch, even if they actively set LAYERSERIES_COMPAT in a way which breaks this and marks "using master branch on kirkstone" as "do it on your own risk". One of the major breaking issues has been bbappends to specific kernel or busybox versions when the applicaple version range is actually much broader. The compiler and other tooling version differences did not cause much issues, in my experience. Cheers, -Mikko
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