On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 10:12 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Richard Purdie >> <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> > On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 15:30 +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: >> > > > Am 11.02.2016 um 15:32 schrieb Burton, Ross < >> > > > ross.bur...@intel.com> >> > > > : >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > On 11 February 2016 at 14:21, Nick Leverton <n...@leverton.org> >> > > > wrote: >> > > > Possibly a little early - Debian 7 will be going onto LTS >> > > > security >> > > > support for >> > > > two years, starting some time this month. Quoting from >> > > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS >> > > > >> > > > Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the LTS project and was looking at >> > > > the >> > > > security team. >> > > > >> > > > This does make it less clear, but it's still an old release and >> > > > we >> > > > can't support/test on everything. >> > > >> > > Sure, but are there some serious/expensive maintaining efforts >> > > continuing support Debian 7? >> > > Or is it an approach to kick Debian from list of supported >> > > distributions for (above?) reasons? >> > > >> > > Since I run some build instances on a Debian 7 machine which is >> > > not >> > > going to be upgraded that >> > > soon (don't want Debian 8, but don't want to reinstall from >> > > scratch >> > > and migrate my Xen VM's ...), >> > > dropping support for "it's just time to move on" is more a >> > > Desktop >> > > philosophy, not for embedded/datacenter >> > > approaches ... >> > >> > For example, we'd like to use the sparse option when building >> > rootfs: >> > >> > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9099 >> > >> > This support isn't available in the version of dd in debian 7. Our >> > options are: >> > >> > * Build a dd -native >> >> For core feature like sparse files its better to control our own >> destiny and use dd-native regardless. > > There are certain core utilities which its very hard to add into the > dependency chains correctly. With xz, I recently gave up trying to get > the patches right. I'm sure it could be done, it didn't seem worth the > effort though. dd and other coreutils fall into the same category, very > hard to get right without races. There is probably a redesign of the > some of the way staging happens needed to make it work and that is a > low priority right now. > >> But that does not mean we should >> not drop debian7 or arcane centos distros that we keep supporting for >> ever. I still see patches for centos 5.8 in metadata. > > We did retire centos 6 recently (qemu wouldn't run there correctly for > any of the automated tests).
ver good. we can remove fix_for_centos_5.8.patch from glibc meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt/0001-fix-the-gcc-version-check.patch meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt/0001-remove-Wsuggest-attribute-from-CFLAGS.patch > > Cheers, > > Richard > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto