[CentOS-devel] SIGs: Possibility to drop EOL content at 6.10 release time

[Anssi Johansson]

Anssi Johansson kirjoitti 19.6.2018 klo 13.48:
> RHEL 6.10 was released today and building CentOS 6.10 has just started. 
> This would be an excellent time to remove any EOL software you may have 
> floating around on mirror.centos.org.
> 
> SIGs should explicitly state which content they want copied over from 
> 6.9 to 6.10.
> 
> I'd imagine that for example openstack-juno could be dropped because it 
> went EOL in 2015-12-07 (so actually prior to CentOS 6.8's release..). Is 
> there some other content that could be dropped?
> 
> If SIGs want to transfer some of their packages from 6.9 to 6.10, please 
> let hughesjr know. You can probably simply reply to this message to let 
> people know of your decision. Content to be transferred over to 6.10 can 
> be specified either by directory name, or by individual package names.
> 
> There are also various centos-release-* packages in extras, 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.9/extras/x86_64/Packages/ , perhaps 
> some of those could be trimmed as well.
> 
> You should also communicate to your users in advance that the EOL 
> packages will disappear, and if necessary, instruct them to migrate to a 
> newer supported version. Having instructions for that procedure 
> published somewhere would be nice.
> 
> The old content under 6.9, including any EOL content, will be archived 
> to vault.centos.org, and that content will be available in the vault 
> indefinitely. The 6.9 directory on mirror.centos.org will be emptied 
> some time after 6.10 is released.
> 
> For reference and inspiration, here are some directories from 
> mirror.centos.org, including both up-to-date content and potentially EOL 
> content. SIGs should review the list to make sure these directories can 
> be copied over to 6.10 when that time comes. Making the decisions now 
> would save a bit of time at 6.10 release time.
> 
> cloud/x86_64/openstack-juno
> cloud/x86_64/openstack-juno/common
> sclo/x86_64/rh/devassist09
> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-3
> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-4
> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-6
> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-7
> sclo/x86_64/rh/git19
> sclo/x86_64/rh/httpd24
> sclo/x86_64/rh/mariadb55
> sclo/x86_64/rh/maven30
> sclo/x86_64/rh/mongodb24
> sclo/x86_64/rh/mysql55
> sclo/x86_64/rh/nginx16
> sclo/x86_64/rh/nodejs010
> sclo/x86_64/rh/perl516
> sclo/x86_64/rh/php54
> sclo/x86_64/rh/php55
> sclo/x86_64/rh/postgresql92
> sclo/x86_64/rh/python27
> sclo/x86_64/rh/python33
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-git29
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-java-common
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mariadb100
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mariadb101
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mariadb102
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-maven33
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb26
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb30upg
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb32
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb34
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mysql56
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mysql57
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nginx18
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nginx110
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nodejs4
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nodejs6
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-passenger40
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-perl520
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-perl524
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php56
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php70
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql94
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql95
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql96
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-python34
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-python35
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-python36
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-redis32
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ror41
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ror42
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ror50
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ruby22
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ruby23
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ruby24
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-scala210
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-thermostat16
> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-varnish4
> sclo/x86_64/rh/ror40
> sclo/x86_64/rh/ruby193
> sclo/x86_64/rh/ruby200
> sclo/x86_64/rh/thermostat1
> sclo/x86_64/rh/v8314
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-git25
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-git212
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-httpd24more
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php54
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php55
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php56
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php70
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-python27
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-python34
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-python35
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-ror42
> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-subversion19
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.6
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.7
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.8
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.9
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.10
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.12
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.13
> storage/x86_64/gluster-4.0
> storage/x86_64/gluster-4.1
> virt/x86_64/xen-44
> virt/x86_64/xen-46
> virt/x86_64/xen-48

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