[yocto] Supported host distro updates

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 01 October 2012 14:21:47 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Paul Eggleton
> 
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 24 September 2012 19:03:57 McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> >> CentOS release 5.8 (Final)
> > 
> > OK, so do we keep 5.6 / 5.7 or remove them in favour of 5.8?
> 
> I don't think you can... each of these present different issues I've
> found and fixed along the way.

OK, I'll leave them in for the moment.

> >> Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
> > 
> > I think this is probably too old for us to be declaring support for, since
> > it has been unsupported upstream for some time now.
> 
> This has been working for me for a while (with a lot fewer issues to
> fix than CentOS 5.x) unless I'm missing something, I don't think it's
> too old.

I consider it too old because of its upstream support status, but also because 
broadly we commit to supporting N and N-1 (and usually N+1) where N is the 
most recent release of the distribution. Fedora 13 would be N-4.

Not having Fedora 13 (or any other distro or distro version, for that matter) 
in this list does not mean that you can't continue to use it, nor does it 
necessarily mean that we won't take patches to fix support for it should it 
break.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre