On 19.04.2018 10:54, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 19 April 2018 at 08:59, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I wouldn't say people don't care about SLE11 (or other similarly old distros >> like RHEL-6). Rather the view in libvirt was that if a user is stuck on such >> an old distro, they are likely doing that because they want the stability >> inherant in running fixed software versions for years. IOW it is unlikely >> that they want the stability of an old distro, combined with cutting edge >> libvirt and/or QEMU. > > Well, it depends. You might be stuck with an old distro because > some software you want to run depends on it, but also want to run > newer versions of some programs like QEMU. If you're in that > boat you can probably live with having to also compile a newer > version of glib to go with your newer QEMU, though. I think the > policy as outlined in that libvirt page seems a good one (it's > basically a codification of what we've been doing already), with > a few tweaks -- I think we still believe we support some older > OSX releases, and would want to mention NetBSD/OpenBSD I guess. >
In NetBSD we don't really support pkgsrc branches more than quarterly and keep using usually the recent releases. > thanks > -- PMM >
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
