On 2019-10-08 10:45, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
CentOS 7 will remain the mainstream for a few more years. 8 has some major upgrades, but (or maybe "therefore") it will take a long time for the commercial app vendors to catch up. I've been through this transition from 5 to 6 to 7, trust me...I could either try Centos 7 again and use Joyent's or Jason Bacon's binaries, but Centos 7 is on the verge of being obsolete (not literally, but...)
http://netbsd.org/~bacon/auto-pkgsrc-setup defaults to using gcc7 for everything except gcc7 & dependencies and well over 90% of pkgsrc packages build successfully in the default configuration it creates.
I intend to continue building pkgsrc binaries for CentOS 7 until its EOL. I'll also begin building for CentOS 8 as soon as I have the time and the hardware.
Cheers, JB