On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need/want/would like to build new node 6 for EL6, but gcc
is too old.
>> For that reason, I'd like to use devtoolset-4-gcc, but the build fails
>> (obviously) because the package doesn't exist.
>>
>> So, is there a way to make that work somehow?
>> I am not sure about enabling external repos during build, maybe someone
>> will be wiser.
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> This has already been discussed several times:
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproj...
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproj...
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproj...
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> There are some potential roadblocks, but it comes down to someone writing up
> an official proposal and going through the full approval process.
So one of the major blockers for me for WRT to using DTS in builds it
that it is currently x86_64 only but with the next release, (DTS 6.0)
it will support all the RHEL architectures [1] which certainly make it
easier to support across platforms. We obviously don't want to deal
with it prior to GA and I have no idea when the intended GA is it's
certainly worth discussing further now as to what are the
requirements, advantages, potential issues etc.
I think this is now worth revisiting, at least for EL7, now DTS is out
and supports key architectures. Thoughts?
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/10/25/announcing-release-software...