Re: [poky] [RFC] poky.conf: Drop CentOS 7 from supported distributions

["Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:51:48PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 16:33 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Since Yocto v3.0, the extensible SDK cannot be built on CentOS 7 because
> > of old tar:
> > 
> >     $ bitbake xxx-image -c populate_sdk_ext
> >     Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support
> >     needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of
> >     tar (you could use the projects buildtools-tarball from our last
> >     release).
> > 
> > Drop it then from officially supported distributions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> The plan is to suggest people use buildtools-tarball on such systems
> and there are open bugs for this.

Yes, I understand the suggestion but the message is hidden behind
big-red-error with last lines:
    Exception: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'build/tmp/work/col_vf50_proceq-poky-linux-gnueabi/console-proceq-image/1.0-r0/sdk-ext/image//opt
    /eagle/3.0.2/conf/local.conf.bak' ->
'build/tmp/work/col_vf50_proceq-poky-linux-gnueabi/console-proceq-image/1.0-r0/sdk-ext/image//opt/eagle/3.0.2/conf/local.conf'

So the user might not even spot the suggestion.  The second point is
that if by default distribution cannot compile one of basic features of
Yocto, then I doubt that it has the same level of support as others.

Best regards,
Krzysztof