On 12/1/22 06:56, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/1/22 01:00, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 11/30/22 11:41, Chris Schanzle via CentOS-devel wrote: >>>> Thanks for the reference, Simon. [tl;dr: delays due to CentOS folks >>>> repeating tremendous effort RH already solved.] While I am grateful >>>> for >>>> everyone's time and efforts, it is hard to understand why there isn't >>>> more technology transfer within RH to the CentOS folks if they're one >>>> big happy family. And disappointing there is no communication on this >>>> issue here. >>>> >>>> With vulnerable internet-interacting apps like Thunderbird and Firefox >>>> (possibly others), IMHO CentOS 7 is unsafe for general use. >>>> Effectively >>>> EOL. I'm sad, but no time for self pity when there's work to replace >>>> the OS on our systems... >>>> >>>> Thank you, CentOS team. Incredible success for many years - I've >>>> enjoyed the ride with you. >>>> >>> >>> These (firefox and thunderbird) are now released. >> >> Hi Johnny and all, >> >> Thank you very much for your hard work on this, it's much appreciated! >> >> Regards, >> Simon > > NOTE: We can not get Firefox/Thunderbird to build on ppc/ppc64 or > armhfp right now, it is likely that either it will no longer be > supported on these or certainly not until later on. Several of the > 'toolsets' that I need are not building cleanly on those arches. > > The aarch64 are ppc64le builds are building ok, but still being tested > before release. > > I was also trying to do all 7 architectures for both of these. Moving > forward,it seems that the only ones we can reliably build are x86_64, > i686, aarch64 and ppc64le for CentOS Linux 7. > The above arches only apply to Firefox / Thunderbird, all other updates that are needed for all 7 arches will continue to be built.