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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:23 AM Randy MacLeod
<randy.macleod at windriver.com> 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.

I am in support of it, but then I also fear that many corporate
policies might still
be using it until 2024 when security updates end so perhaps would like to hear
centos7 users here. if no one speaks up then we can safely retire it before 3.1

> 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.
>
> --
> # Randy MacLeod
> # Wind River Linux
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