Fabian,

Thanks to you, the board and everyone on the engineering/releng side for making this happen. I hope this will serve as a gateway to increase contributions and engagement within the community as it continues to grow in multiple directions.

Jack

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 11:22 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org> wrote:
As you’re all aware, and per https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/ ,
CentOS Linux 8 is going EOL end of this month, and content will just
remain available on mirror network until January 31st.

After that date, CentOS Linux 8 repositories will be removed from mirror
network, and mirrorlist will start answering “invalid release”, so no
way to easily install any rpm component.

But what about SIGs content that was built for/against CentOS Linux 8 ?
(basically other repositories that you can see under
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/ but that aren’t coming from centos
linux 8 distro itself ?

As soon as CentOS Stream 8 was announced, we offered the possibility to
all SIGs to opt-in and build for/against Stream 8, and so have their
repositories automatically pushed to
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream , as it was for /8/ .

Most of the SIGs opted at that time to build in parallel for 8 and
8-stream, while some decided to just start building against/for 8-stream
directly (and of course content built on 8-stream *should* just work
fine, and reverse is also true)

But some months ago, community members asked
(https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/400) if that was possible to
continue building against/for el8, but so switching buildroot from
centos 8 to RHEL 8, which was worked on and is now available.

What does that mean for you, SIGs ?

If you want (opt-in and so optional) continue to build for el8, just
create a ticket on https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issues to ask your
tags to build against RHEL 8 instead of CentOS Linux 8. You can do that
whenever you want but before (for obvious reasons) end of January 2022

What if you don’t opt-in ? You SIG content will removed from mirror
network, at the same time as CentOS Linux 8 content.


So to recap :

  * End of january, *all* repositories listed under
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/ will be removed (except for SIGs that
opted-in for the ‘switch to RHEL 8 buildroot’ plan)
  * mirrorlist.centos.org will also start answering ‘invalid repo’ for
SIG content, as it will be for CentOS Linux 8 itself
  * All SIGs tags for 8 will be locked down (except for SIGs that
opted-in for the ‘switch to RHEL 8 buildroot’ plan) so no way to just
tag-build (and so push anything) out


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