[asterisk-dev] CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12 Testing Support

[Corey Farrell]

CentOS 6 "Full Updates" support ends May 10th [1], after that "only 
Security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be 
released".  I think this combined with testing difficulties justifies 
moving CentOS 6 into "extended" support for Asterisk. Probably worth 
announcing to asterisk-users the OS versions that are no longer 
automatically tested.

[1] https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product


On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, Scott Griepentrog wrote:
> After testing with CentOS 6.8, I agree that it has become difficult to 
> continue supporting it.
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM, George Joseph <gjoseph at digium.com 
> <mailto:gjoseph at digium.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Scott Griepentrog
>     <sgriepentrog at digium.com <mailto:sgriepentrog at digium.com>> wrote:
>
>         I agree that 12.04 is old enough to not worry about
>         supporting.  Because of the widespread use of CentOS 6 as an
>         Asterisk platform, I'd be concerned about abandoning it
>         however.  Which tests (beyond ODBC) are you having trouble with?
>
>
>     Pretty much every rest_api test fails because of Python package
>     issues.   The last errors are related to txaio and twisted.
>     The latest version of twisted to support python 2.6 is 14 which
>     starts  a cascade of package interdependencies that can only be
>     resolved by using pip to install specific versions of things.  I
>     could probably get it to work but is it worth the time and effort
>     to do so?
>
>     These are the packages that have to be installed via pip just to
>     get this far...
>     alembic
>     setuptools
>     requests
>     pyparsing
>     urlparse3
>     urllib3
>     virtualenv
>     virtualenv-clone
>     virtualenvwrapper
>     construct
>     pep8
>     autobahn
>     service-identity
>     construct==2.5.1
>     Twisted==14
>
>     Oh yeah, one of the packages we install from source (I think it's
>     sipp but I forget) requires autoconf268 which is available via yum
>     but it's a pain to get it to be used.
>
>
>         On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com
>         <mailto:jcolp at digium.com>> wrote:
>
>             On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, at 03:28 PM, George Joseph wrote:
>             > Both CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12 have fallen into the state
>             where we can't
>             > actually create a new instance of either that can run
>             the Asterisk
>             > Testsuite.  In order to get it to work I've had to
>             fiddle Python packages
>             > both from the distributions' repositories and directly
>             from pip which
>             > makes
>             > the Python environment fragile FrankenSnake.  Also, ODBC
>             packages from
>             > that
>             > era are unreliable so I've had to download and install
>             both UnixODBC and
>             > the postgresql ODBC drivers from source to get a working
>             realtime setup.
>             > Finally, the Ubuntu 12 ISO images contain an
>             /etc/apt/sources.list that
>             > no
>             > longer works right out of the box.
>             >
>             > So what do you folks think the future of testing on
>             CentOS 6 and Ubuntu
>             > 12
>             > should be?
>
>             12.04 is EOL so not testing it is fine to me. CentOS 6 I
>             don't really
>             have a comment on, I'm not in that ecosystem myself.
>
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