> On Jun 5, 2015, at 3:30 PM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> On Jun 5, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> In addition to removing build support for RHEL5 (and derivatives), I think >> we need to ditch Debian6 and Ubuntu12 as well. Debian6 comes, from what I >> can tell, with OpenSSL 0.9.8, and Ubuntu12 comes with OpenSSL1.0.0. The >> minimum version we’ve said to support, as defined by RHEL6, is OpenSSL >> v1.0.1. > > In the previous vote, the package list was specified as: > > gcc-4.4.7-11.el6.x86_64 > openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6.8.x86_64 > bison-2.4.1-5.el6.x86_64 > pcre-7.8-6.el6.x86_64 > hwloc-1.5-3.el6_5.x86_64 > libxml2-2.7.6-17.el6_6.1.x86_64 > tcl-8.5.7-6.el6.x86_64 > zlib-1.2.3-29.el6.x86_64 > libcap-2.16-5.5.el6.x86_64 > xz-libs-4.999.9-0.5.beta.20091007git.el6.x86_64 > glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.5.x86_64
Which is the list from RHEL6, our “minimum viable OS release”. The point of picking RHEL6 was exactly to avoid whack-a-mole. It’s perfectly clear from our decision to support RHEL6 and up, which versions of the packages we require. It seems that Ubuntu12 is just confused, and does indeed have OpenSSL 1.0.1, even though their library / package name is 1.0.0. So, we can continue to support Ubuntu12 it seems. As for Debian 6, I don’t know if we’re doing something wrong there, but I can not get it to install anything newer than OpenSSL 0.9.8 (and, we are in fact currently broken on the builds). > > Rather than playing whack-a-mole with OS versions, let's verify the actual > dependencies. We also need an up to date and accessible support page, since > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Supported+Operating+Systems is > hard to find and out of date. Yes, that needs to be updated. — Leif
