Re: git: 667277248f7e - main - */*: Various Linux CentOS 7 updates

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 08:42:42PM +0300, Vladimir Druzenko wrote:
> 25.03.2024 20:22, Vladimir Druzenko пишет:
> > 25.03.2024 20:14, Vladimir Druzenko пишет:
> > > 25.03.2024 20:03, T??l Coosemans пишет:
> > > > I seem to remember that I emailed my CentOS 9 work to you a
> > > > couple of months ago.  I haven't worked on it since then because
> > > > I can't test it.  It requires a more recent CPU than what I have
> > > > available for FreeBSD.

This basically means no-go for it as FreeBSD should support all x86
CPUs made since 1983 (insert your favorite year from that era, and yes
I'm only half-kidding. :-)

> > So all Core2 and older are not supported. Only Nehalem and newer???
> > Can we switch to other fork? For example AlmaLinux? It's critical
> > for me[.]

For many of us, FWIW.

> Look like it's general problem for all RHEL9 forks???  BTW, why we
> ignore Ubuntu or Debian?

Good question.  IIRC we used to have a number of linuxbase ports, even
Gentoo one, but their maintainers had dropped the ball at some point.
CentOS was a good choice because of its inertia, long support cycles,
and strict compatibility with RHEL which ensured that most GNU/Linux
software would run fine.  Given the sad fate of CentOS and in the light
of Canonical now offering 12* year support for their LTS releases 14.04
onwards, perhaps we could look at providing Ubuntu-based linuxbase.

./danfe

*) https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-long-term-support-to-12-years-starting-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts