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Re: RFC: raise the OS baseline for systemtap.git
- From: Josh Stone <jistone at redhat dot com>
- To: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:41:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: raise the OS baseline for systemtap.git
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On 06/11/2014 03:48 PM, Josh Stone wrote:
> Of course, it's not only about RHEL. Fedora is way past RHEL6, no
> problem. Debian's eldest (squeeze) also has 2.6.32 and gcc 4.4, as does
> Ubuntu 10.4 LTS (lucid). SLES11 SP1 has 2.6.32, but only gcc 4.3, while
> openSUSE 11.4 is on 2.6.37 with gcc 4.5. I suspect most others distros
> that might care are newer anyway, but please speak up.
Lukas pointed out that we should also be mindful of CentOS, SL, et al.
I think for this purpose they can be treated as properly equivalent to
RHEL, so we'd support CentOS6/SL6 and up, but let me know if you think
there's more nuance to it than that.