[CentOS-devel] What to do with SCLo SIG content that is EOL

Thu Oct 12 18:23:29 UTC 2017
Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com>

We discussed this on last SCLo SIG sync-up meeting -- unlike packages 
from CentOS base, SCL packages are not moving to Vault repos at this 
point, although some of them are already EOL and not getting any 
updates. A question was raised whether such packages should be moved to 
Vault.

Comparing to CentOS base packages, SCL is different in packages naming 
-- version of the stack is part of the package name. That means, that 
once e.g. devtoolset-3 got EOL, yum won't update them ever, even though 
there are some newer versions available (those use different name though)..

Moving such packages from mirrors to Vault would basically mean some 
setups will get broken for users.

It's understandable, that some users are still fine using EOL packages, 
but they would need to change repos to the Vault url.

What do you think -- should we start moving EOL SCLs into Vault? How big 
problem would that be for you?

Honza