<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 7:10 PM Rich Bowen <<a href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As we get closer to the CentOS Linux 8 EOL, we're getting more and more <br>
questions about how the EOL is actually going to work. While there tends <br>
to be a great deal of "everybody just knows how it works" among the <br>
people actually on this list, we're getting attention from a much larger <br>
audience now, and they don't know.<br>
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To that end, I want to make sure we have clear documentation, <br>
prominently displayed, that sets expectations as we get closer to that <br>
December 31 date,<br>
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So ... as I understand, our process is basically:<br>
<br>
<br>
1. Copy old data to <a href="http://vault.centos.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">vault.centos.org</a><br>
2. Update web pages and links to say it is now on <a href="http://vault.centos.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">vault.centos.org</a><br>
3. Turn off mirrorlist to that release name (aka all requests to <br>
CentOS-8 will 404)<br>
4. Remove the data from the main mirrors with a file saying look at <br>
<a href="http://vault.centos.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">vault.centos.org</a><br>
5. Mirrors pick all that up in 4-8 hours.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just for confirmation, this applies to the SIGs content under centos/8/?</div><div><br></div><div>Note that some SIGs are not providing repos under 8-stream and just keep using the repos under 8/ fos stream as those packages are compatible with CS8. Will those repos be archived too?, that would require them to, at least, cross-tagging the desired builds in 8s tags and update the release rpms in cs8 estras repos.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Is there more to it than this? Will we do anything different this time <br>
because CL8 is a special case? Am I missing any steps, or have I <br>
misunderstood any of the steps? Is this already documented somewhere <br>
that I simply haven't found yet?<br>
<br>
Are there any changes to this process that we *want* to advocate for, <br>
given the special nature of this particular EOL? (No, I absolutely <br>
cannot promise anything, but I can ask.)<br>
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