From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] doc: Add supported kernel, libc versions
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 08:42:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKIQbr8nI0VhFmUg@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAASaF6ytbCjwOSOywR4JUToJb_u9fOe2a2y4zE7_n99cgre5TQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
...
> > Older distributions are not officially supported, which means that it
> > may or may not work. It all depends on your luck. It should be possible
> > to compile latest LTP even on slightly older distributions than we
> > support with a few manual tweaks, e.g. disabling manually tests for
> > newly added syscalls manually, etc.
> > If latest LTP cannot be compiled even with some amount of workarounds,
> > you may result to older LTP releases, however these are _not_ supported
> > in any way. Also if you are trying to run LTP on more than 10 years old
> > distribution you may as well reconsider you life choices.
> Should we also give some hint about accepting patches/wokrarounds for
> very old distros?
> For example: "Trivial fixes/workarounds may be accepted, but users are
> encouraged to move to newer distro."
+1. I'd add it at the end of first paragraph. Or anyone feel free to express it
differently.
Kind regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-17 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-14 13:26 [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] doc: Add supported kernel, libc versions Petr Vorel
2021-05-14 13:53 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-05-14 15:06 ` [LTP] [Automated-testing] " Petr Vorel
2021-05-17 13:56 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-05-18 8:29 ` Li Wang
2021-05-17 5:55 ` [LTP] " Jan Stancek
2021-05-17 6:42 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2021-05-17 5:49 ` xuyang2018.jy
2021-05-17 6:50 ` Petr Vorel
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