Hello,

I'm working with our team to test supported development OS for our AMD/Xilinx PetaLinux distribution built on top of Langdale. The official supported Linux distributions are Ubuntu, Fedora, AlmaLinux, Debian and OpenSUSE, so we regtest our flow on each of these prior to advertising support.

However, the supported version of AlmaLinux for Langdale is 8.5, and this is not available for download any more (https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html).  The earliest version is 8.6, with 8.7 being most current.  The 8.5 isos are stripped from the mirrors, so url-games dont work here either.

What is the recommended verison of AlmaLinux to test against Langdale?  Is there a plan to update the Yocto release notes to reflect this?

Many thanks
Kris

On Mon, 2023-02-20 at 09:12 +0000, Chaplin, Kris via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:

Hello,

I'm working with our team to test supported development OS for our
AMD/Xilinx PetaLinux distribution built on top of Langdale. The official
supported Linux distributions are Ubuntu, Fedora, AlmaLinux, Debian and
OpenSUSE, so we regtest our flow on each of these prior to advertising
support.

However, the supported version of AlmaLinux for Langdale is 8.5, and
this is not available for download any more
(https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html).  The earliest version is 8.6,
with 8.7 being most current.  The 8.5 isos are stripped from the
mirrors, so url-games dont work here either.

What is the recommended verison of AlmaLinux to test against Langdale? 
Is there a plan to update the Yocto release notes to reflect this?

We're testing against AlmaLinux 8.7 so I think this is a documentation
issue and the value hasn't been updated to match what we're now testing
against. I've updated master and I suspect we'll follow up with changes
to the other release branches.

Thanks for mentioning it.

Cheers,

Richard

Note that the list of supported host distros is set only for the poky
reference distro with a weak assignment, and not for oe-core or yocto
as a whole. If you do your own tests, and they don't show issues, you
can mark any distro as compatible, or install buildtools tarball to
insulate your build from problematic host tools (such as native gcc
compiler).

AlmaLinux in particular is a spinoff of RHEL and thus extremely
conservative within the same major version.

Alex

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 12:58, Chaplin, Kris via lists.yoctoproject.org
<Kris.Chaplin=amd.com@...> wrote:

Hello,

I'm working with our team to test supported development OS for our
AMD/Xilinx PetaLinux distribution built on top of Langdale. The official
supported Linux distributions are Ubuntu, Fedora, AlmaLinux, Debian and
OpenSUSE, so we regtest our flow on each of these prior to advertising
support.

However, the supported version of AlmaLinux for Langdale is 8.5, and
this is not available for download any more
(https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html). The earliest version is 8.6,
with 8.7 being most current. The 8.5 isos are stripped from the
mirrors, so url-games dont work here either.

What is the recommended verison of AlmaLinux to test against Langdale?
Is there a plan to update the Yocto release notes to reflect this?

Many thanks
Kris

On 20/02/2023 12:11, Richard Purdie wrote:

We're testing against AlmaLinux 8.7 so I think this is a documentation
issue and the value hasn't been updated to match what we're now testing
against. I've updated master and I suspect we'll follow up with changes
to the other release branches.

Thanks for mentioning it.

Cheers,

Richard

Thank you Richard - that's great info.  I'll ask our team to do the same.

Regards
Kris

Thanks Alex,

Note that the list of supported host distros is set only for the poky
reference distro with a weak assignment, and not for oe-core or yocto
as a whole. If you do your own tests, and they don't show issues, you
can mark any distro as compatible, or install buildtools tarball to
insulate your build from problematic host tools (such as native gcc
compiler).

That's understood - thank you.  As there were some changes upstream, I wanted to ensure that we have as much overlap as possible, so customers looking to integrate our meta layers together with others would have a tried and tested path.

AlmaLinux in particular is a spinoff of RHEL and thus extremely
conservative within the same major version.

Yes - my assumption is that we should be ok with 8.x, but we always test against a specific version / versions and document these, to save any corner cases causing unexpected failures.

Appreciate the help.

Regards
Kris

On Mon, 2023-02-20 at 13:09 +0000, Chaplin, Kris via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:

Thanks Alex,

Note that the list of supported host distros is set only for the poky
reference distro with a weak assignment, and not for oe-core or yocto
as a whole. If you do your own tests, and they don't show issues, you
can mark any distro as compatible, or install buildtools tarball to
insulate your build from problematic host tools (such as native gcc
compiler).

That's understood - thank you.  As there were some changes upstream, I
wanted to ensure that we have as much overlap as possible, so customers
looking to integrate our meta layers together with others would have a
tried and tested path.

AlmaLinux in particular is a spinoff of RHEL and thus extremely
conservative within the same major version.

Yes - my assumption is that we should be ok with 8.x, but we always test
against a specific version / versions and document these, to save any
corner cases causing unexpected failures.

Appreciate the help.

Just to loop back, we've updated all the branches to mention 8.7 now
and tweaked some of the other entries too (thanks Steve!).

Cheers,

Richard

On 22/02/2023 11:27, Richard Purdie wrote:

Just to loop back, we've updated all the branches to mention 8.7 now
and tweaked some of the other entries too (thanks Steve!).

This is great news - thank you for your help on this, and to Steve.  Will the page at https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/system-requirements.html auto update at some point to reflect this?

Regards
Kris

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 4:06 AM Kris Chaplin <kris.chaplin@...> wrote:

On 22/02/2023 11:27, Richard Purdie wrote:

Just to loop back, we've updated all the branches to mention 8.7 now
and tweaked some of the other entries too (thanks Steve!).

This is great news - thank you for your help on this, and to Steve.
Will the page at
https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/system-requirements.html auto
update at some point to reflect this?

If only :-) I'm preparing docs patches for langdale, kirkstone, and dunfell.

Steve

On 22/02/2023 14:09, Steve Sakoman wrote:

If only :-) I'm preparing docs patches for langdale, kirkstone, and dunfell.

Steve

Appreciate it - thanks again!