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CentOS 7/8s EOL and public services/application discussion (READ ME)
by Fabian Arrotin 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Hi all, For the first time in CentOS history, we'll have two version going EOL the same year, at just some week intervals, so we should already be prepared about this, and the sooner, the better. Per https://www.centos.org/centos-linux/ and https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/#centos-stream-8 : - June 30th 2024 for CentOS Linux 7 - May 31st 2024 for CentOS Stream 8 At the infra side, there are services that we still need to see working, so we already started to add el9 support to our ansible roles and some services are already (or will be soon) migrated to el9. I intend to send multiple mails in the next hours/days about identified applications for which we're still unsure if we should migrate these , or just let them behind (decommission), so if you see a topic/subject for an application you're interested in, feel free to participate in that specific thread (easier to read/follow than just everything in one email thread). These emails should start with something like "RFC (Request for comments) : future of <app>" Let me just announce here in advance the (public) infra services running on CentOS 7 that will just disappear when CentOS 7 itself will be EOL (and so not receiving any update anymore) : - mirror.centos.org : all Stream 9 (and above) mirror content is now on its own dedicated mirror.stream.centos.org CDN setup, so there is no need to keep an empty mirror.centos.org vhost with no content, as all content will be moved (as usual) to vault.centos.org. So mirror.centos.org A/AAAA records will be removed completely. (or we can just have a simple vhost with a redirect to mirror.stream.centos.org) - mirrorlist.centos.org : from Stream 9 (and above), it's using Fedora infra mirrormanager instance for metalink= instead of mirrorlist= in .repo files. We'll just decommission our mirror crawler (also running with a mix of perl/python2 code), so not validating any mirror for legacy/EOL releases. mirrorlist.centos.org A/AAAA records will be removed in the following weeks after c7 will be EOL'ed. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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Alternative Images SIG meeting notes
by Troy Dawson 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

* Image build systems: kiwi / livecd * Tags and targets are now in CBS. We are now able to build images * Thanks to all those that did that work * We are not able to publish to the mirrors yet * https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1039 * !! Help is needed creating rpm-ostree stuff in kiwi !! * https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/issues/38 * kiwi can currently create the following images: live media, OEM disk images, VM disk images, cloud images, container images, WSL images, fstrees, squashfs images, filesystem tarballs, liveinstall ISOs, PXE images, UEFI netboot images * Image build systems: containers * The SIG would like to build containers in kiwi, so that it is build on CBS instead of elsewhere. People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * tdawson (47) * Eighth_Doctor (34) * salimma (15) * davide (6) * centguard (5) Minutes: https://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/February/centos-meeting.2023-02-23-19.0… Log: https://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/February/centos-meeting.2023-02-23-19.0…

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CentOS Stream 8 is transitioning to be ahead of RHEL 8 - Compose push to mirror operations affected
by Brian Stinson 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hi Folks, As many of you know, CentOS Stream 8 is currently produced using an "inside out" workflow, meaning RHEL builds happen first and then are reflected in CentOS Stream afterward. This is not the case with CentOS Stream 9 where builds are performed directly by maintainers at Red Hat from merge requests in gitlab.com. The CentOS Stream team is busy working on a project to migrate CentOS Stream 8 to the gitlab.com/Stream-first workflow. This is an exciting step to reflect CentOS Stream's true purpose in both currently active releases. One effect of this transition, though, is that we need to migrate from the old mbox buildsystem to the new Stream koji ( https://kojihub.stream.centos.org) To do this the team needs to pause regular compose and push-to-mirror jobs to avoid a split-brain situation with 2 separate systems. You may notice a lack of updates to the repos on the mirrors for a few more weeks while this transition is completed. The team's first priority is making sure that Red Hat maintainers take control over the c8s branches in https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms (and builds in koji) and then the team will return to working on regular composes and push-to-mirror operations. If you have any questions in the interim, please reach out to me. Cheers! -- Brian Stinson

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EPEL 8 Modules officially retired
by Troy Dawson 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

EPEL 8 Modules are now officially retired. - The EPEL 8 modules are being archived. - The mirror manager is being pointed to the archive - Tags, targets and configurations are being removed so new builds cannot happen. - The dnf epel-modular.repo will remain, but will still default to disabled - The dnf epel-modular.repo name will change DEPRECATED to RETIRED Some of these steps take longer than others. If you do not see the change right now, know that it is coming. Questions and Answers: Question: Will I still be able to access the modules? Answer: It is not recommended, because the modules will not get any security or bug fixes, but yes. They will be in the Fedora archives, and the mirror managers will point at them.

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CentOS Board Office Hours
by Shaun McCance 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

Due to CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and general travel, the CentOS Board didn't get notice out for the February meeting. There was no official meeting, although there was a video chat. Nonetheless, we'll hold our monthly board office hours this Thursday, February 16, 15 15:00 UTC. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81819497130?pwd=WTQxNDdYS1UwK3RzdTdxeGRIMjRBUT09 Thanks, Shaun

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CentOS Cloud SIG meeting minutes (2023-02-09)
by Joel Capitao 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

====================================================== #centos-meeting: CentOS Cloud SIG meeting (2023-02-09) ====================================================== Meeting started by jcapitao[m] at 15:01:36 UTC. The full logs are available athttps://www.centos.org/minutes/2023/February/centos-meeting.2023-02-09-15… . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call (jcapitao[m], 15:01:55) * Documentation update proposal (jcapitao[m], 15:08:22) * LINK: https://pagure.io/centos-sig-cloud/documentation (jcapitao[m], 15:08:39) * LINK: https://www.operate-first.cloud/ (Eighth_Doctor, 15:25:34) * Architectures for SCOS (jcapitao[m], 15:28:26) * LINK: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2023-January/142747.html (amoralej, 15:32:51) * LINK: https://build.opensuse.org/ (amoralej, 15:47:58) * LINK: https://github.com/okd-project/okd-coreos-pipeline (lorbus, 15:51:13) * LINK: https://sigs.centos.org/guide/cbs/ (Eighth_Doctor, 15:58:05) * ACTION: lorbus to start process to add labels for SIG Cloud builds on CBS (lorbus, 15:58:13) Meeting ended at 16:02:41 UTC. Action Items ------------ * lorbus to start process to add labels for SIG Cloud builds on CBS Action Items, by person ----------------------- * lorbus * lorbus to start process to add labels for SIG Cloud builds on CBS * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * lorbus (60) * amoralej (59) * Eighth_Doctor (48) * jcapitao[m] (45) * centguard (12) * spotz_ (9) * davdunc[m (7) * aleskandro[m] (3) * karolinku12 (1) * arrfab (1) * karolinku (0) * davdunc (0) * aleskandro (0) * Conan (0) * Kudo (0) * davdunc[m] (0) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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[infra] : Planned outage : RDU2 network maintenance (please read)
by Fabian Arrotin 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Due to a mandatory network maintenance at the RDU2 (Community Cage) facility/DC, we'll have to power off some CentOS infrastructure components hosted in that DC. Impacted services: - https://cbs.centos.org (impossible to submit any build, nor push to delivery network) - https://bugs.centos.org - ns1.centos.org - https://wiki.centos.org - all centos linux / stream 8 / stream 9 release engineering workflow (stream 9 can be built but not pushed out, while for the rest, all will be down) - https://git.centos.org - CI infra: - while openshift in aws is self-contained, there will be no way to request duffy nodes for tests - tenants still on legacy openshift (hosted in that DC) will see the whole cluster being powered down (because of Persistent Volumes hosted in a NFS server that itself will be unavailable) - various other services Migration is scheduled for """"Tuesday January 31th, 1:00 pm UTC time"""". You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2023-01-31 13:00 UTC') The scheduled maintenance window (communicated to us) is estimated to 4h, but we'll restart infra services as soon as possible, following ourselves the current status internally. Thanks for your understanding and patience. on behalf of the Infra team, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]

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Getting SIG NFV content built for other architectures
by Colin Walters 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Hi, so we're working on testing some CentOS Stream 9 stuff for OpenShift, and we use openvswitch by default. Today, the repo only seems to build for x86_64. I looked at https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/NFV but I don't see anything there that gives me links to any *source code* where I could change this. I'd guess there's something like a limited set on the koji tag?

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Enable FIDO2 Support in systemd
by Ersei Saggi 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

Hi CentOS team, By the RPM spec files, (https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/systemd/-/blob/c9s/systemd.spe…) FIDO2 support is disabled in systemd. FIDO2 support is very useful for automatic decryption of LUKS partitions with systemd-cryptsetup. This would allow for external security keys (such as a Yubikey) to decrypt drives with no user interaction. Currently, the current systemd configuration supports only TPM and GPG. In older devices that don't support TPM, the only option for no-interaction FDE decryption is to use GPG (which still requires a key access password to be remotely secure). As far as I can tell, there is no barrier to enable FIDO2 support. Please let me know if I am mistaken. Thanks, Ersei

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New EPEL KDE Proposal
by Troy Dawson 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

I plan on making two changes to the current EPEL KDE Update Schedule.[1] ** First: EPEL 8 KDE Plasma Desktop is going to stay at the releases that they currently are at. We will backport major security fixes. Bugs and bugfixes will be best effort. But we will not do any across the board updates. This is due to the older libraries in RHEL 8. We've hit the limit that the newer KDE versions can run on the older libraries. EPEL 8 will have these versions (with a few exceptions) plasma - 5.24 kf5 - 5.96 kde apps - 22.04 / 21.12 / 21.08 and some 21.04 qt5 - 5.15 **Second: We will do the across the board updates to the main epel branches [2] every six months instead of once a year. They will coincide with each RHEL minor release, instead of every other RHEL minor release. With the last release, we found that KDE packages like to build on themselves. Meaning that some 22.04 packages needed a previous version of at least 21.08 to build. That was fine on epel-next where we had updated each six months. But when we tried to build on plain epel8 or epel9, things got complicated. Doing a release every six months will allow users to get the newer updates faster. And although it sounds counter-intuitive, it will save the maintainers time. We haven't officially made this change yet. So if anyone sees any issues and/or problems. Please let us know. Thank You Troy Dawson Fedora KDE SIG [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/EPEL#Update_Schedule [2] - Currently epel9, but epel10 when it comes out

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