Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual/system-requirements.rst: support Arch Linux

[Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>]

Hi Vincent

Thanks for the patch anyway! I was also going to check whether Arch was 
tested by our Autobuilder.

Am 02.01.23 um 11:19 schrieb Quentin Schulz via lists.yoctoproject.org:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Thanks for your patch.
>
> I'm afraid this will not be accepted. We usually refuse to advertise 
> support for rolling release distributions.
>
> The advertised supported distributions are tested on our autobuilder 
> and we don't run ArchLinux there. I would expect we also don't have 
> the bandwidth to debug when things break in ArchLinux. Note that we 
> also do not specify support for derivatives of Debian or Ubuntu 
> distributions, we have seen issues with Pop_OS! in the past for example.
>
> For this to be accepted in the documentation, I believe we'd need 
> patches for the autobuilder so that some builds run on an ArchLinux 
> server. This probably needs to be discussed (and financially 
> supported?) with Michael Halstead our sysadmin. But first and 
> foremost, we would need this support to be agreed by maintainer(s), 
> hence why I'm Cc'ing Richard on this, who I hope can raise this to the 
> proper board if he doesn't veto this.
>
> Considering it's holiday season, please expect some delay, but don't 
> hesitate to ping us in a week or two were you to not receive an answer 
> meanwhile.


Another idea would be to create a page on our wiki 
(https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/), for people trying to use Yocto on 
distributions which are currently not supported. We could then refer to 
such a page from the documentation, reminding people that there is no 
support commitment. Or something specific to Arch would be to update 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yocto

Just my two cents.

Cheers
Michael.

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Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com