[yocto] Criteria for proposing a host distribution supported

[Laszlo Papp]

Actually, I also have problems with Debian stable? See the bugreports I
sent. It is mentioned as "supported distribution". Yet, it does not work. I
do not to follow the parallelism with Arch accordingly.

People can always revert the offending arch package to one week older if
they wanna use Yocto, or they can fix it. I do not see it a problem, and
easily solvable, especially with a clear CI documentation which should
happen for any node, anyhow.

The problem is currently that there is no any focus on Arch, and that is
bad for the Arch arch community. Note, it is not about 1-2 people. Arch is
a quite common distribution, especially for development because it gives
you the most power for working with bleeding edge technologies.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>wrote:

> On 26 July 2013 11:39, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> > If you do not trust Arch, you can use something else. That does not mean
> > there would not be people who update (daily for instance) and fix the
> issues
> > coming up.
>
> And that already happens - I'm running Debian Unstable, others may be
> running Rawhide, or Arch.  You'll see numerous commits in master
> fixing issues where updates on the *host* have broken the build[1].
>
> Let's imagine we are testing Arch or any other rolling/development
> distribution.  The day we freeze oe-core 1.5 we could write that Arch
> Linux is a tested and supported distribution, and we release. A week
> later Arch integrates (for example) a newer gcc that introduces some
> new errors, so we can't bootstrap anymore.  The documentation says
> that Arch is tested, yet someone using Arch will discover that it
> doesn't work.  They'll rightly complain that the documentation is
> wrong, and Arch doesn't work.
>
> Of course if ArchLinux decided to have a maintained stable branch,
> then that would be something worth testing on.
>
> Ross
>
> [1] The latest I can recall of the top of my head is
> 8db36429ef328b97340ee1d9fc2e697cfdd68bff.
>
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