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

Tue Jun 19 10:48:34 UTC 2018
Anssi Johansson <avij at centosproject.org>

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