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

[Bas Mevissen]

On 28/07/2019 14:00, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, clear.

>>
>>>                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.
> 

That seems a good approach to me.

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 


-- 
Bas.