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

Mon Apr 9 13:15:21 UTC 2018
George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu>

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:20 PM, Anssi Johansson <avij at 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