[Openembedded-architecture] Yocto support for Centos-7 (RHEL-7): drop in early 2020?

[Nicholas Krause]

On 12/10/19 12:22 PM, Randy MacLeod 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.
> Richard said that many if not most of the package upgrades that he
> deals with fail for CentOS-7 and he has to either fix them himself
> or get the person who submitted the work to do so. Newer distributions
> are not nearly so problematic.
>
> While the CentOS-7 distro is still a supported by it's provider,
> the toolchain is very old:
>  - gcc-4.8
>  - glibc-2.17
>  - binutils-2.27
>
> One could add a newer toolchain to the buildtools tarball to address
> some of the CentOS-7 support problems. So far, we have only use
> the host's toolchain and it seems best to continue to do so.
>
> Release and support dates for CentOS-6,7,8 are here:
>   https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
> Note that 'Full Updates' or new hardware support for
> CentOS-7 stops in Q3 2020.
>
When we talking about moving to C++11 on the toolchain side for gcc, 
generally
the problem was older in support vendor distributions. If CentOS 7 is 
going out
of support soon its a good idea. Otherwise for now just add a tarball 
until then
would be my idea.

Cheers,
Nick