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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:14 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:29:27AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 11:18 +0100, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:15 AM Diego Santa Cruz via
> > > Openembedded-architecture
> > > <openembedded-architecture at lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> >
> > uninative isn't the right place. What we'd need is a nativesdk-gcc
> > recipe and then to add nativesdk-gcc to buildtools-tarball.
> >
> > We could then add some mechanism to auto-install buildtools tarball up
> > front on systems that need it, in a similar way to what uninative does.
> >
> > Definitely possible and would solve certain problems, we'd just need
> > someone to implement it...
>
> What you describe sounds like a manual and painful way to create some
> kind of container - once you have toolchain/chrpath/tar/... of the host
> replaced there is not much left that is actually used from the host.
>
> The simple and sane solution would be to provide or require a container
> with a supported distribution instead.

The downside of that is that it causes problems for anyone who is
already building in a container, e.g. anyone using a Docker image to
run Jenkins, etc.

  https://hub.docker.com/r/jenkins/jenkins/