Re: [yocto-patches] [yocto-autobuilder-helper][PATCH] scripts/yocto-supported-distros: fix an incorrect regular expression for stream

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2026-04-08 at 09:25 +0200, Antonin Godard via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon Apr 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM CEST, Paul Barker wrote:
> > On Thu, 2026-03-26 at 17:22 +0100, Antonin Godard via
> > lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > > The lsb string for CentOS Stream is actually centosstream-*, not
> > > centos-*. It was thus not detecting centosstream entries in
> > > SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS.
> > > 
> > > This was preventing the script from outputting the docs-formatted
> > > CentOS
> > > strings.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
> > > Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
> > > ---
> > >  scripts/yocto-supported-distros | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/yocto-supported-distros b/scripts/yocto-
> > > supported-distros
> > > index 11b05b7..f1dac04 100755
> > > --- a/scripts/yocto-supported-distros
> > > +++ b/scripts/yocto-supported-distros
> > > @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ INPUT_REGEXES = {
> > >      },
> > >      "centosstream": {
> > >          "ab": re.compile(r"^stream(\d+)"),
> > > -        "lsb": re.compile(r"^stream-(\d+)"),
> > > +        "lsb": re.compile(r"^centosstream-(\d+)"),
> > 
> > Hi Antonin,
> > 
> > Where do you see centosstream-* reported?
> > 
> > On the stream9-vk-1 autobuilder worker and on a local centos stream
> > 9
> > instance I see "centos-9":
> > 
> >     $ ( source /etc/os-release && echo $ID-$VERSION_ID )
> >     centos-9
> > 
> > We currently have "centosstream-9" listed as a supported distro,
> > but if
> > I build on stream9-vk-1 I see:
> > 
> >     WARNING: Host distribution "centos-9" has not been validated
> > with
> >     this version of the build system; you may possibly experience
> >     unexpected failures. It is recommended that you use a tested
> >     distribution.
> > 
> > So, I sent a patch for meta-yocto [1]. We should try to resolve
> > which
> > one is correct.
> > 
> > [1]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/poky/20260403-centos-9-v1-1-e5324bd74ea3@pbarker.dev/T/
> 
> I'm a bit confused, why was this not a problem on whinlatter and
> scarthgap then?
> Both of them have either centosstream-8 or centosstream-9 as their
> lsb string in
> poky.conf.
> 
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-yocto/tree/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf?h=whinlatter
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-yocto/tree/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf?h=scarthgap
> 
> Even CentOS Stream 8 images report centos-8 (with a local docker
> image):
> 
> $ docker run --rm -it quay.io/centos/centos:stream8 bash
> [root@c33732bb804a /]# cat /etc/os-release
> NAME="CentOS Stream"
> VERSION="8"
> ID="centos"
> ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
> VERSION_ID="8"
> 
> Should we backport your change to both of these branches?

It does sound like we got that wrong so yes, we should probably fix it.

Cheers,

Richard