On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 10:51 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:03 PM Carl George carl@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 7:01 AM Josh Boyer jwboyer@redhat.com wrote:
I see it here
https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=408
but not on the mirrors ...
A retired package?
Not retired, just a build that will never be shipped at this point.
josh
Since it was published at one time, and has now been deleted from the public repos with extreme prejudice, in what way is this not "retired"?
Perhaps we have a simple lexicon issue. Retired to me means the package (SRPM) has been removed from the distribution entirely. In this specific instance, that is not the case. We have a build of a package that was dropped, but the package and all of the functionality previously provided by it is still available with the current build.
I admit this is a first. I've never seen Red Hat or CentOS pull this stunt. Has this *ever* been done before?
I'm not sure I would call it a stunt. It's certainly not ideal and we've explained how it happened already.
To answer your question, in exceedingly rare cases we have removed builds in the past, even from RHEL CDN. I have no idea if that was reflected in CentOS Linux or not.
josh