[poky] [PATCH] conf/poky: add Fedora 30 and Opensuse Leap 15.1 to supported distributions

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2019-07-28 at 13:14 +0200, Bas Mevissen wrote:
> On 18/07/2019 13:53, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> > ---
> >   meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf | 2 ++
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-
> > poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
> > index 2d155d0de18..ac6368ddab1 100644
> > --- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
> > +++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
> > @@ -56,11 +56,13 @@ SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS ?= " \
> >               ubuntu-18.04 \n \
> >               fedora-28 \n \
> 
> Better remove Fedora 28 as it is no longer supported. So probably it
> is hardly used any more, hence regressions will go undetected.

This list matches the machines we actually test builds on:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/workers

so we do still test f28 right now. We're in the process of bringing up
some new hardware and removing older machines so as that happens we'll
update the list.

> 
> >               fedora-29 \n \
> > +            fedora-30 \n \
> >               centos-7 \n \
> >               debian-8 \n \
> >               debian-9 \n \
> >               debian-10 \n \
> >               opensuse-42.3 \n \
> > +            opensuseleap-15.1 \n \
> >               "
> >   #
> >   # OELAYOUT_ABI allows us to notify users when the format of
> > TMPDIR changes in
> > 
> 
> In general, I think that EOL distro versions should be removed after
> a while. Somewhere between 3 months (short-lived versions) and 6
> months for long term supported versions.
> 
> It will not prohibit people from using older distro versions, but at 
> least it gives a message that regressions or breakage is to be
> expected.

We try and ensure this list matches what we're actually testing.

Cheers,

Richard