On 5/10/21 11:59 AM, Jon Pruente wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org wrote:
Talking about that : what's the official position on how CentOS 8 will go EOL ? I'd be myself in favor of transparently redirecting CentOS 8 linux yum/dnf mirrorlists to 8-stream end of the year, so that people would still get automatically updates and would be able to "dnf install <bla>"
I'd prefer that over a "mirrorlist.centos.org answering <invalid arch / release combination>" and so breaking existing installs.
There is already a process that was recently used for CentOS 6, which is to have people use the repos at vault.centos.org if they need them. Changing them to Stream could break things in very unexpected ways, which would be worse than simply having them no longer provide updates. IMO it's better to not respond and create an error to be investigated and fixed by moving to the vault repo if desired, or a different 3rd party repo provider. At that point it is clearly an issue with the repo. Random problems cropping up with broken packages will be much harder to trace back and will cause all sorts of people seeking help to fix their then broken CentOS 8 systems to come out of the woodwork.
Using vault will be bad .. no security updates after EOL. I would technically WORK .. but the packages will become outdated.
You will need to either shift to CentOS Stream, RHEL, or another source rebuild like Alma Linux after EOL.
I don't think we will do an automated shift though to either.