Re: [CentOS-devel] SIGs: Possibility to drop EOL content at 7.5 release time

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:20 PM, Anssi Johansson avij@centosproject.org wrote:

Hi, this is not really my job, but I don't mind ruffling a few feathers if I need to.

RHEL/CentOS 7.5 is probably around the corner. This would be an excellent time to remove any EOL software you may have floating around on mirror.centos.org. Unless otherwise specified, any SIG content under 7.4 will be copied over to 7,5.

What do you mean "copied over"? You mean exact RPMs copied over into new repos, or empty repo directory structures?

Re-building packages against the new release seems like a good idea in general, and that will naturally filter out material not being actively maintained by the SIGs.

-George