[yocto] Supported host distro updates

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps a better solution here is to have two lists. An officially
tested and supported along with a known not to work list.

-M