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

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:15 AM Diego Santa Cruz via
Openembedded-architecture
<openembedded-architecture at lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > <openembedded-architecture-bounces at lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of
> > Khem Raj
> > Sent: 10 December 2019 20:35
> > To: Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod at windriver.com>
> > Cc: openembedded-architecture <openembedded-
> > architecture at lists.openembedded.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Yocto support for Centos-7 (RHEL-7):
> > drop in early 2020?
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> While I see what the motivation to remove CentOS-7 is, dropping it will probably create issues for people. CentOS 8 was released not so long ago. In our case we have older products (among which Yocto based ones) which do not necessarily work on CentOS 8. CentOS 8 is relatively recent, so we have not had time to test how old products work on it.
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> Isn't it possible to require things like devtoolset-8 (gcc 8.3, binutils-2.30) on CentOS 7 to keep it going?
>
> In our case we are using devtoolset-8 with Yocto thud on CentOS 7 with success, as some layers require a recent host gcc to build.
>
How about extending uninative with more gcc bits?

Andreas