Hi, On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 09:37:51AM +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 06:41, Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the major problems with yocto major updates is that it becomes a big > > bang, > > everything must be updated at once. This can be split down and individual > > layers updated > > one at a time while keeping poky on the old version. This requires working > > around > > layer compatibility, which in many cases is quite artificial and just > > indiciates that layer > > is not tested with the other poky versions but it might still just work. > > > > I've done this so many times now that I don't see any reason to hide it, > > also because many non-core layers are simply not maintaining other than > > master branch > > exposing users to obsole and insecure SW if they stick to the branch name. > > Getting around LAYERSERIES_COMPAT or using BBMASK in order to update > layers one at a time is not the problem here. The problem here is that > a newcomer wants to have an older boost (which is in poky) with a > newer everything else (which is also in poky). What I'm trying to say, > nobody stopped and asked, what are they actually trying to do? What > made them think they need an older boost? Why isn't a newer boost > suitable? Maybe it is, with a bit of work?
Yes: On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 02:13:39PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > First, I would seriously question and fight back on requirements which > dictate using > old, possibly unmaintained SW versions with a lot of known CVE security > vulnerabilities. > Updating to a new boost version is straight forward work and almost all of > the compile > etc issues can be resolved using Internet search engines since most open > source projects > have also done the same. We agree on this. Cheers, -Mikko
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